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A review by blairconrad
The Vorrh by Brian Catling
2.0
If you like books with interesting and varied new ideas, with a fresh approach to fantasy, this is the book for you.
If you like books with a coherent plot, interesting characters whose actions make sense, and comprehensible language, this is not the book for you.
I like both things, but ultimately the language and the fact that there was no story turned me off. There are a number of ideas in here that were novel and interesting, and I'd like to have followed them a little further, but we never did. And Catling aimed for high falutin', poetical language, but I think he missed. Instead, his words acted more as a barrier to the story than anything else.
If you like books with a coherent plot, interesting characters whose actions make sense, and comprehensible language, this is not the book for you.
I like both things, but ultimately the language and the fact that there was no story turned me off. There are a number of ideas in here that were novel and interesting, and I'd like to have followed them a little further, but we never did. And Catling aimed for high falutin', poetical language, but I think he missed. Instead, his words acted more as a barrier to the story than anything else.