Posts Tagged ‘heroic fantasy’

Well, if you do believe I have any prejudice against epics, I hope you’ll accept this review as an example of why I am just a man who thinks there’s room for pretty much more of everything. Because with The Way of Kings, you could accuse Mister Sanderson of pretty much anything except for creating a small book. Because this is big.
Damn big.
Mammoth big.
It is the John Holmes of fantasy novels.

While the plot is sound, and the idea admirable, I can only trail off this review by saying the execution was a bit wincing. It’s a book which serves to remind just how important style is when writing prose. How it can make or break a good idea. It’s hard to say where blame should lie on this one, though, considering it’s been translated. It makes me wish I could read German. Just to know if Mister Heitz should be criticised or his translator…

Because, intriguingly, I feel Andy Remic’s target audience isn’t necessarily the hardcore fantasy reader, but possibly those who have just thought of moving on from R.A. Salvatore and into higher fantasy, but still want the action and basic flow. And the person writing that vitriolic nonsense seems, to me, to have a rather low level of creativity, flair, and intelligence so I would have thought Mister Remic’s books would have suited him or been too hard for him. It was, for me, a moment of weirdness as I read this book.