Nov-12-2010, 04:05 PM (UTC)
Finished The Shattered Land earlier today. My goodness, that was bad. It started out fairly straightforward, but about halfway through, the story got really, really convoluted. And not in an epic-fantasy-with-lots-of-storylines way, like A Song of Ice and Fire, but more like "How is any of this connected with anything else in this book, let alone the previous volume? Also, Baker seems to have taken Chandler's Law to heart: "When in doubt, have a man with a gun through the door", to be replaced here with "When in doubt, have your heroes ambushed by assassins/creepy shadow creatures/more assassins/statues that come to life/warforged/elves/more elves/that first group of elves again". Gaaah!
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