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Dreamwalker
by James Oswald
I chanced upon this book, mainly due to the gorgeous cover, while killing time in a bookstore. I put it on my to-read list, and forgot about it. I chanced upon it again at the library and thought "hey it's you! this is fate!" (This only applies to objects, not people, and especially not love.)
As you can tell, I borrowed the book, read it and really enjoyed it. So much so, that I went ahead and bought the rest of the series. The fourth book is coming out (in the same cover series!) and I just can't be more thrilled right now.
The book is definitely not the most original, but what it lacks in originality, it makes up for it in how it conjures up beautiful imagery in my mind. I got the sense that I was watching a fantasy TV series in my mind. I attribute this to two things, (a) the way the chapters start off, (b) mylove for addiction to TV drama series.
I found the characters were depicted quite realistically. Well, as realistically as a fantasy novel would allow. The names are a little confusing. Morgwn, for example. How.. how do I even begin to pronounce that. I realized that once I put it aside, and not hone it on it all the time, my mind just began to read it a certain way. I read it as Morg-wern, in case you were wondering.
Moving on!
The world is described just enough for one to get a sense of how it operates, and how it looks like. The extent of description may be a little draggy and over-done for those more familiar with the genre. I consider myself pretty good at visualizing, and a lover of fantasy, but I found it alright.
The plot may have moved a little too slowly for my taste, but I certainly didn't lose interest. I found that the book brought up, though not necessarily addressed, a number of topics -- power, politics of history, coming of age, what is age, community, labels, evolution... Those little mentions or subtle nod towards the topics I love to discuss kept me going, and gave me a fair bit to think about. I don't know if I though too much of the text, but I do know I like whatever I got out of it. A damn good read and discussions, that's what.
I closed the book, and got a sense that I needed to continue on to the next. I also felt compelled to tell everyone about it. Some friends played audience to my raving about the book. Sorry not sorry.
One thing I must say about reading this book is that while it seems closely related to our reality, in that it's not so heavily fantasy that it doesn't draw much from what we know of our reality, you have to suspend your disbelief, or perhaps just suspend your expectations of what a dragon should be like, for example.
Because isn't that the beauty of fantasy? It's another world, with another set of rules. Let's not ruin the reading experience for ourselves by sprinkling our expectations over something that's meant to be different.
Give or take, everyone.
As you can tell, I borrowed the book, read it and really enjoyed it. So much so, that I went ahead and bought the rest of the series. The fourth book is coming out (in the same cover series!) and I just can't be more thrilled right now.
The book is definitely not the most original, but what it lacks in originality, it makes up for it in how it conjures up beautiful imagery in my mind. I got the sense that I was watching a fantasy TV series in my mind. I attribute this to two things, (a) the way the chapters start off, (b) my
I found the characters were depicted quite realistically. Well, as realistically as a fantasy novel would allow. The names are a little confusing. Morgwn, for example. How.. how do I even begin to pronounce that. I realized that once I put it aside, and not hone it on it all the time, my mind just began to read it a certain way. I read it as Morg-wern, in case you were wondering.
Moving on!
The world is described just enough for one to get a sense of how it operates, and how it looks like. The extent of description may be a little draggy and over-done for those more familiar with the genre. I consider myself pretty good at visualizing, and a lover of fantasy, but I found it alright.
The plot may have moved a little too slowly for my taste, but I certainly didn't lose interest. I found that the book brought up, though not necessarily addressed, a number of topics -- power, politics of history, coming of age, what is age, community, labels, evolution... Those little mentions or subtle nod towards the topics I love to discuss kept me going, and gave me a fair bit to think about. I don't know if I though too much of the text, but I do know I like whatever I got out of it. A damn good read and discussions, that's what.
I closed the book, and got a sense that I needed to continue on to the next. I also felt compelled to tell everyone about it. Some friends played audience to my raving about the book. Sorry not sorry.
One thing I must say about reading this book is that while it seems closely related to our reality, in that it's not so heavily fantasy that it doesn't draw much from what we know of our reality, you have to suspend your disbelief, or perhaps just suspend your expectations of what a dragon should be like, for example.
Because isn't that the beauty of fantasy? It's another world, with another set of rules. Let's not ruin the reading experience for ourselves by sprinkling our expectations over something that's meant to be different.
Give or take, everyone.