- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Gollancz (25 Feb 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0575081589
- ISBN-13: 978-0575081581
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.2 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 689,827 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not quite as good,
By John W (Shropshire) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Above the Snowline (Hardcover)
I have read the author's other books about Jant and the Castle, and enjoyed them. To be honest these are the first books in the fantasy genre I have read for many years and I've been impressed by the fresh writing style and original subject matter.I didn't enjoy this one as much though. I can understand what the author is up to - this is an opportunity to explore Jant's earlier life and some events that have influenced his character. And the changes of viewpoint let us see Jant as others see him, which is interesting. But the changing viewpoints interrupt the flow of the story, I think we hear from too many different people and their voices are not really distinct enough. Overall it's not the exciting page-turner that the other books are.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Above the Snowline (Paperback)
Despite featuring one of the most obvious instances of irony I can think of (Jant dismisses Lightning's declaration of tragic love as dramatic nonsense, before immediately falling in love), Above the Snowline is a rather lovely novel.A prequel to In the Year of Our War, this story features Jant, the winged immortal, tasked with travelling to Darkling, one of the Fourlands, to mediate a dispute between the Awians (essentially winged, but flightless people) and the Rhydanne (cat-like people). Jant just happens to be a mongrel of both races and has a distinct hatred of the Rhydanne because of how they cast him out because of his Awian attributes. Yet all it takes is one pretty face and determined spirit for Jant to fall in love, and that comes in the form of the widowed Shira Dellin who petitions the Emperor for aid when the Awians in Darkling steal the hunting grounds of the Rhydanne. It's a charged situation, complicated by the fact that the governor of the area, Raven, has other plans in mind and sees the Rhydanne as less than human. And the tragedy unfolds. There's less humour in this story and more politics than usual but it is a page-turner and well worth reading.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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She's done it again,
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This review is from: Above the Snowline (Hardcover)
I have just finished this, and am happy to say that this prequel to the other castle books is absolutely breathtaking. Her prose is as perfect as ever, and far ahead of anything being written at the moment. This book deserves to be read, as do her previous ones.The book focuses on Jant's early life in the castle, and his coming to terms with his Rhydanne roots. But it today, and read it.
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