A review by titus_hjelm
Elric of Melniboné by Michael Moorcock

3.0

Funny enough, I know about Elric and Stormbringer through the RPG that was on sale in the 80s, but never got round to reading the actual books until now. This was a positive experience. Yes, there are the usual tropes (it's about royalty, it's about war, it's about being a chosen one, etc.), but the book manages not to be naively generic like Eddings, for example. Perhaps it's the grey zone morality, which the main character and his home nation inhabit. Also, brilliant for showing (like Fritz Leiber) that fantasy books do not have to be 800+ pages long to be interesting.