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Banewreaker: Volume 1 of the Sundering (Hardcover)

by Jacqueline Carey (Author) "TANAROS WALKED DOWN THE HALLWAY, black marble echoing under his bootheels ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Tor Books (30 Nov 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0765305216
  • ISBN-13: 978-0765305213
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.6 x 4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 495,124 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Not black and white, for once!, 4 Nov 2005
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This review is from: Banewreaker (Sundering) (Mass Market Paperback)
At first, reading what the story in this book was about, I had my doubts. It sounded like any other standard fantasy story. Gods at war, a prophesy, the whole lot.
But I had read the Kushiel books by Jacqueline Carey, and loved those. So I thought to give this one a try.
I have not regretted it a moment. The ingredients of the story might be the same as many others, but the way she presents it is completely different. No good or bad guys, black or white. The story she presents is grey. She give the point of view of both sides, and both have good reasons to do what they do, follow the prophesy or try to stop it. You really do not know who the real bad guys are, nor the good guys. And that makes this book unique among fantasy stories. A great story, presented in a unique way!
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Wait and see, 30 Jun 2005
By I. F. Miller (London, England) - See all my reviews
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I loved the Kushiel trilogy and turned to this new work eagerly. In 'Banewreaker', Carey owes a much more evident debt to the great fantasy worldbuilders: its morality, while inverting Tolkien, could not have been written without him; and she adopts an altogether more epic tone. Her antihero has great potential but so far fails to come to vivid life, which is, indeed, my complaint about the whole book: it's workmanlike rather than inspired. The situation is, however, interesting enough to hold my attention as a moral conundrum and I shall read on in the hope that the whole will be greater than its first part.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Oh Dear......, 16 April 2006
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I purchased Carey's Baneweaker with much anticipation, having previously enjoyed her Kushiel series; I had found her previous works to be refreshing, her characters were engaging and her creation of the world they inhabit both individual and complex.

I had hoped that in her subsequent works I would see a development of her character portrayal and descriptive skills; instead I found she had retreated into the formulaic cannon fodder that so dogs this genre.

I plodded through to the end by sheer dint of will and determination. The characters were two dimensional and her world flat and indistinguishable. Her attempts to create an intricate world where good and evil are difficult to distinguish; fails to convince.

The best thing I can say about this book is that it is workmanlike; I'm sure it will be enjoyed by some, but those who require complex plots, character sensitivity and deft manipulation of storylines are bound to be disappointed.

I hope that Carey does not follow in the path of Fiest whose early potential rapidly faded into an endless series of vacuous prose. I will read the next in the series in the hope that Carey can pull of a recovery; I hope that she will take the time she requires to produce something of quality.
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