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auronani 's review for:
The Steel Remains
by Richard K. Morgan
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Maybe it’s because just read Abercrombie but this felt like a bit of him but darker. A bit of Anderson’s Stormlight but less defined. It was most definitely explicit in sex and violence but I felt like it wasn’t gratuitous.
You’re just dropped onto the world and expected to swim. No detailed world building which in some ways I liked. I felt like I was expected to make up my own understanding of the world much like someone living in it might have to. I was also interested in what seemed like technological aspects of this universe and yet there also seemed strong magical or supernatural entities and history. I wondered if it was the concept that any sufficiently advanced technology will look like magic and I’m guessing that’s still possible.
The religious oppression and violence is a little to reminiscent of the direction our world today is headed just turned up to 12. The homophobia and xenophobia was also quite hefty in this uninvited but I could see how it was defining for the main POV.
The plot felt more there than in the first book of the First Law series but much like that book it’s a very obvious an introduction to the universe. I’ll probably continue this series.
You’re just dropped onto the world and expected to swim. No detailed world building which in some ways I liked. I felt like I was expected to make up my own understanding of the world much like someone living in it might have to. I was also interested in what seemed like technological aspects of this universe and yet there also seemed strong magical or supernatural entities and history. I wondered if it was the concept that any sufficiently advanced technology will look like magic and I’m guessing that’s still possible.
The religious oppression and violence is a little to reminiscent of the direction our world today is headed just turned up to 12. The homophobia and xenophobia was also quite hefty in this uninvited but I could see how it was defining for the main POV.
The plot felt more there than in the first book of the First Law series but much like that book it’s a very obvious an introduction to the universe. I’ll probably continue this series.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Homophobia, Sexual content, Slavery, Xenophobia
Minor: Excrement