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Gabriel's part in it seems to be less important for a while, up until everything merge together in term of magic involvement or centers of power.
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The epic struggle governing the plot of the seven book planned series is progressing, slowly but steadily. It's not always obvious but more often than not, it brings more depth. That's when you have to consider the big picture. You will probably ask yourself questions like ''Why is there so much emphasis on the fur trade?'' or ''Why is there so much time spent on this character?'' and they will be worthy questions that alas show some weakness taken independently. A great tale recounted with some hick-ups. However, the way they are mixed up isn't the representation of successfully tight writing. If you take the relationship between the different leaders who appeared in the first novel, the new threads coming from characters mostly out of Galle and the new region of Morea and Livianopolis, its capital and scenery for a big part of the book and the evolution of the Red Knight, individually, you get compelling stories. It's worth it even if the book isn't on par with The Red Knight. Hopefully, Gabriel is still showing some genius but with much more help from magic, which slightly lessen the ingenuity of some victories.Īnyhow, most of these elements were also part of The Red Knight so your question must be: "Is the sequel worth it? What new elements does it bring to the table?". Readers who don't like encounters described in that level of detail may be thrown off by the author's writing, to the point of putting the book down or jumping ahead of several sections.
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I admit that this time around, I didn't understand all of it, I'm no expert in warfare tactics but I enjoyed the majority of the scenes.
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The reenactor sure knows how to describe them from inside out. I hope the author can pull it off for several more books but with a result as stellar as for The Red Knight.Ĭameron is clearly the master of big battle scenes where, even if magic plays an important part, you feel as if your living history, taking part of a legendary conflict. If you consider the fast switches of point of views in all chapters, you get a mighty tapestry woven like no other that eventually shows its beauty but to the risk of being a complete jumble. The scope is even larger and it's hard to make connections between all the players involved. However, for a second time in a row, Cameron succeeds in bringing much of it together, although with less triumph. Instead of allies fighting for a common cause, we get several groups switching allegiances, fighting for power, fleeing or being subdued by the return in power of the mighty and now corrupted Thorn or the Fae Knight Tapio (only to name a few.). That break up makes The Fell Sword even more of a mess at first than The Red Knight was, where we had to grow familiar with the characters. The Wild is still in turmoil but in the aftermath of the battle of Lissen Carak, the various forces have to regroup, the indigenous human races included. The Fell Sword throws Gabriel into another siege, but quite different from the one in the first book.
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Even if The Fell Sword, as was the case with the previous book, isn't standing solely on the shoulder of the young ingenious mercenary commander, he's still the star of the book and when finally we catch up with him, that's where you realize how great and compelling a protagonist he has become with only one book behind his belt. Many storylines need development for the story to move forward as a whole. Starting with this basis and with a very large cast and much ground to cover, it's not a surprise that the Red Knight himself, Gabriel, isn't given much page time for at least a hundred pages in the follow-up. In The Red Knight, Cameron introduced a lot of characters and several locations where the action, the scheming and several precisely detailed battles took place.