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A review by kriswasp
To Green Angel Tower: Storm by Tad Williams
5.0
5 stars for this final book, and 5 stars for this series for overall.
First my gripes: the ending seemed too contrite. I’ve spent weeks and weeks and read enough pages to restock a forest and then within 60 pages everything is explained and wrapped up. It’s almost as though he’s finished writing all of his epic scenes and now wants to move on to his next project. I could have spent a few hundred more pages with this to end. The whole series is luxurious, like treating yourself to your favourite treat. On a weekday. With no work. In the bath. So for it to lose that luxury at the end to just finish like it did was a little jarring.
It’s testament to this series that was overlong and bloated that I was wishing for several hundred more bloated and overlong pages. Take that whichever way you feel like it fits.
My, this series ended strong though. Everything that it built towards was epic and sensational and fantastical. From page 1 to page 796 I was engrossed, enjoying the dips in pace to catch breath and then get stuck in and flying again.
I cannot recommend this series enough. I will read The Heart of What Was Lost immediately, and then I’ll consider moving on to other things before I read Brothers of the Wind, and then dive into the sequel series. I want to give it the time it deserves, and I want to come to it ready to be as absorbed as I was with this. I can’t rush it and I won’t.
Once again, I can’t recommend this series enough. Just go and read it.
First my gripes: the ending seemed too contrite. I’ve spent weeks and weeks and read enough pages to restock a forest and then within 60 pages everything is explained and wrapped up. It’s almost as though he’s finished writing all of his epic scenes and now wants to move on to his next project. I could have spent a few hundred more pages with this to end. The whole series is luxurious, like treating yourself to your favourite treat. On a weekday. With no work. In the bath. So for it to lose that luxury at the end to just finish like it did was a little jarring.
It’s testament to this series that was overlong and bloated that I was wishing for several hundred more bloated and overlong pages. Take that whichever way you feel like it fits.
My, this series ended strong though. Everything that it built towards was epic and sensational and fantastical. From page 1 to page 796 I was engrossed, enjoying the dips in pace to catch breath and then get stuck in and flying again.
I cannot recommend this series enough. I will read The Heart of What Was Lost immediately, and then I’ll consider moving on to other things before I read Brothers of the Wind, and then dive into the sequel series. I want to give it the time it deserves, and I want to come to it ready to be as absorbed as I was with this. I can’t rush it and I won’t.
Once again, I can’t recommend this series enough. Just go and read it.