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The second series revolves around Merlin, Corwin's son, and I bought each title as it became available, hungry as I was for more. The second series has a quite different feel to the first, but is more intricately plotted and the detail of the Courts of Chaos (the other major "bad guy" of the first series) provides yet more depth and intrigue. I have read the entire series several times now, and find more to delight me every time. Zelazny was a genuine master of his craft; sadly, he died too soon for the sequels to the second series he almost certainly intended to materialise, but I can heartily recommend this title to any F&SF enthusiast seeking good reading material: Amber is solid gold!
Corwin has become one of my favorite characters in fiction, along with Rogi Remillard of Julian May's Intervention he's one of life's survivors, caught up in events, though he's more an action figure than Rogi they have that similiar roguish mentality. Zelazny's writing, imagination, style and flow are second-to-none, the new amber books don't compare. Amber the archetypal city peopled by archetypes caught up in an archetypal war of Order vs Chaos, the book itself is deeper and richer than any archetype.
Thanks to this book I also read finally the second series, Merlin may not be Corwin but he's a good lead. My only complaint with the second series was hiding Corwin away until the last few pages and even then he doesn't come across so richly as he did in his own books.
For the follow ups do a search on Amber Shorts written by Zelazny prior to his death beginning with A Salesman's Tale.
The second series is weaker in a number of ways. Firstly, the protagonist, Merlin, seems much more cliched than Corwin. The plot has less of the plotting and backbiting between the Amberites than in the original, which is always distressing to a scheming individual such as myself. My major gripe, however, is that with features such as the Ghostwheel and the Keep of Four Worlds Zelazny disrupts the purity of his original universe, where Order and Chaos were the only powers that matter.
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