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nebular_fire 's review for:
Taliesin
by Stephen R. Lawhead
Upon a reread, 22-ish years later. I heard this was being adapted into a TV show. I had only read the first 3 books in this cycle and never got around to finishing it. I first read Taliesin before I had read fantasy in general. I was a sci-fi boy, with a Christian bent, who couldn’t get through The Hobbit but had read all the then-published Star Wars novels. This book was outside my genre, but for some reason I fell in love with it. Still did not read much fantasy for more than a decade, but Lawhead had me hooked on his take on the genre which felt more like historically-place legend than “fantasy.”
But now on my re read, I don’t get it. Whatever sparkle it had for younger me, (maybe it was all the Christian stuff…I read a lot of Christian-published stories back then and this tasted different, it was scintillating), older me has lived more, has more miles and experience, had lived in the world more. The sparkle is gone. 3.5 stars for disillusionment, rounded back to 4 because I did listen to audiobook the second time and I was multitasking.
But now on my re read, I don’t get it. Whatever sparkle it had for younger me, (maybe it was all the Christian stuff…I read a lot of Christian-published stories back then and this tasted different, it was scintillating), older me has lived more, has more miles and experience, had lived in the world more. The sparkle is gone. 3.5 stars for disillusionment, rounded back to 4 because I did listen to audiobook the second time and I was multitasking.