- Paperback: 500 pages
- Publisher: Tor (5 Sep 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0230014526
- ISBN-13: 978-0230014527
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 4.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 722,370 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Praise for "The Wanderer's Tale":
"The saga's world is conceived on the grand scale, loaded with detail, originality, and wit. A very promising debut." --"Booklist"
"Bilsborough has imbued the quest novel with a gritty realism, an unlikely set of heroes, a range of magics and cultures, and shown how almost anything that can go wrong will, and under the worst of circumstances." --L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
"Plunges readers into a rich, vividly realized world, exploring it alongside fascinating characters. Secrets abound, conflicts rage, gore is spilled--and I can't wait for the sequel!" --Ed Greenwood
"The saga's world is conceived on the grand scale, loaded with detail, originality, and wit. A very promising debut." --"Booklist"
"Bilsborough has imbued the quest novel with a gritty realism, an unlikely set of heroes, a range of magics and cultures, and shown how almost anything that can go wrong will, and under the worst of circumstances." --L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
"Plunges readers into a rich, vividly realized world, exploring it alongside fascinating characters. Secrets abound, conflicts rage, gore is spilled--and I can't wait for the sequel!" --Ed Greenwood
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Continuing the ‘Annals of Lindormyn’, a colourful Tolkien-esque fantasy epic full of weird and wonderful adventures
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Its certainly a unique world to dip into with quite an odd style of story telling, when its good it is very good, but it just as easily gets bogged down with superfluous detail or poor pacing. I did find myself skipping several pages just so I wouldn't give up reading the damn thing. I don't feel cheated, but I also don't feel the urge to reread the book or revisit the world of Lindormyn. Which is a shame cos its an interesting place.
Format:Paperback
I really enjoyed the first book in this series. David's writing style is somewhat entertaining. Although some parts of the first book did get bogged down in detail although it was entertaining nonetheless.
The second book carries on where the first one left off, and is an interesting read, but when the party get to their final destination, the book gets into such a bogged down slow pace of events described in such detail I found it difficult to get through.
This book should have been half its length, it felt as if the author set a goal for a number of pages, and strung out the story to fill them.
The author has a lot of talent, his writing style is one of the most entertaining I have yet to experience, and his vocabulary is superb. Hopefully in his future books he can stop being bogged down in so much thought and detail and provide more action and change and events that the first book in the series did a better job of doing.
The second book carries on where the first one left off, and is an interesting read, but when the party get to their final destination, the book gets into such a bogged down slow pace of events described in such detail I found it difficult to get through.
This book should have been half its length, it felt as if the author set a goal for a number of pages, and strung out the story to fill them.
The author has a lot of talent, his writing style is one of the most entertaining I have yet to experience, and his vocabulary is superb. Hopefully in his future books he can stop being bogged down in so much thought and detail and provide more action and change and events that the first book in the series did a better job of doing.
Format:Hardcover
David's follow on from his original novel, The Wanderers tale, which picks up where the original left off, however new readers needn't worry about not having read the original as this book does re-establish the characters within the first part. Due to this, for readers who read the first part the book is very slow in starting but picks up pace as the characters and plot collide leading you on an action packed adventure however that said it is a bit predictable. It will be interesting to see if some of the originality of the Wanders Tale reappears in the third part or if we're going to have to face a disappointing predictable conclusion.
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