Oct-20-2010, 06:17 PM (UTC)
I'm about 40 pages in now and it's a good read so far, although I'm not sure yet what the actual storyline is. It's rather fragmentary, skipping between a war in the "present" (actually of course THE GRIM DARK FUTURE IN WHICH THERE IS ONLY WAR) and flashbacks to previous moments in the eponymous commander's life.
The Shattered Land, meanwhile, is like the first volume in its trilogy: it's passable, but by no means great. One plot strand, though, appears to be eerily similar to something I had planned to put in one of my novels. (Which might of course not get written for years, but still...) I'll have to read on to see how it will develop and hope it won't be too similar. See, now I have to finish the trilogy!
The Shattered Land, meanwhile, is like the first volume in its trilogy: it's passable, but by no means great. One plot strand, though, appears to be eerily similar to something I had planned to put in one of my novels. (Which might of course not get written for years, but still...) I'll have to read on to see how it will develop and hope it won't be too similar. See, now I have to finish the trilogy!
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