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not_bender 's review for:
Shadow and Claw
by Gene Wolfe
Overall, the two books presented here as volume one of The Book of the New Sun were pretty interesting. Severian was a well fleshed out guide to the events, though maybe not exactly a well fleshed out character in some ways. He was unreliable and a bit full of himself sometimes, a womanizer, and a failed torturer. Some of his story so far has been distasteful (mostly because of the womanizing and casual disregard for the women), but overall it's engagingly enough told that I'm likely to look into volume two at some point. Of the two books collected here, I prefer Shadow of the Torturer.