drewid 's review for:

Shadow & Claw by Gene Wolfe
4.0

Book was slow and the story wasn't that exciting, but that isn't the point of this story, it is a journey and journeys aren't fast, they don't end overnight, they take months and feel like a drag sometimes and while they are times that I wished the book move faster, once I was done, I appreciated more because it felt like I made the journey with Severian. Also I really appreciated the respect Severian had for his trade. He was a torturer but that was his job, he did it to the best of his ability but as he says, took no pleasure out of it other than the knowledge of doing his job well, and I thought that was a very interesting mindset.