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A review by narobertson
Weaveworld by Clive Barker
5.0
My first Clive Barker book, but certainly not my last. This was an immense pleasure to read. Clive Barker’s imagination is a marvel here with an inventive and mesmerizing prose that is as pretty to read as it is horrific to understand. This book, while an urban fantasy at its heart, has veins pumping horror throughout. Horrors of all kinds take their turns burrowing into your brain and don’t stop until the last page is turned.
The psychedelic menagerie of the Seerkind —their world, their raptures, their selves is truly awe inspiring and kept me yearning to get back to the page when I put it down. Go into this book expecting a wild and vivid imagination brought to life by flowery prose and pacing that moves like a bullet train.
I do feel the characters suffer at the expense of the setting, story, and action. I didn’t find any to be fully three dimensional because of the heavy focus on the otherworldly. Terrible things happen with little time spent on introspection or dealing with the consequences of these terrible horrors that afflict a great many of the characters. That, however, is a small gripe to an otherwise fantastic novel.
The psychedelic menagerie of the Seerkind —their world, their raptures, their selves is truly awe inspiring and kept me yearning to get back to the page when I put it down. Go into this book expecting a wild and vivid imagination brought to life by flowery prose and pacing that moves like a bullet train.
I do feel the characters suffer at the expense of the setting, story, and action. I didn’t find any to be fully three dimensional because of the heavy focus on the otherworldly. Terrible things happen with little time spent on introspection or dealing with the consequences of these terrible horrors that afflict a great many of the characters. That, however, is a small gripe to an otherwise fantastic novel.