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Bezig met laden... The Destiny of the Sword (1988)door Dave Duncan
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This review is written with a GPL 4.0 license and the rights contained therein shall supersede all TOS by any and all websites in regards to copying and sharing without proper authorization and permissions. Crossposted at WordPress, Blogspot & Librarything by Bookstooge’s Exalted Permission Title: The Destiny of the Sword Series: The Seventh Sword #3 Author: Dave Duncan Rating: 2.5 of 5 Stars Genre: Fantasy Pages: 370 Format: Digital Edition Synopsis: Wally unites the swordsmen, captures a top wizard and realizes that The World needs both of them. So he hammers out a peace deal between them. In the process though his protege Nnanji rockets up through the ranks and by the end of the book is a Seventh Level Swordsman himself. Nnanji is charismatic, is willing to kill, can delegate, has a brother who can scheme like nobody else, a wife that is ambitious and an unshakeable belief in Wally. So of course, he is on the road to becoming the first Emperor of The World. And Wally gets all butthurt and starts whining about democracy and slinging terms like psychopath and fascist and dictator. Thankfully the little god has a talk with him and Wally accepts that he'll have to play second fiddle to Nnanji from now on. My Thoughts: This was a decent story right up until Wally starts whining about Nnanji supplanting him. He was all 21st century ideals in the first book but had gotten over that in the second and in this book. Up until that point. Then it was a one chapter tsunami of weak willed bs. It ruined everything up to that point for me. The story is wrapped up satisfactorily thankfully. This was originally a trilogy and then years later he wrote a 4th book, The Death of Nnanji. I will not be reading that. ★★☆☆ ½ Along the same lines as the previous books in the saga, this was good but not great. However, the ending made up for some of its failures, in that it surprised me and was a well thought out ending for the series - not what I would have chosen, but a fitting ending nonetheless. This book saw a lot more come into play from the main character's "past", which I thought made the story more interesting as well. As far as the ending, the twist is well planned and thought out, and I appreciated its uniqueness. It was however (in my opinion) abrupt, and not enough time was given to build up to it. Still, all things considered I enjoyed this book the most in the series. The ending was not at all what I expected, but it was set up beautifully, as the Age of Legends transitions to history. There are puzzles revealed, magic understood, some "back stage at the Invasion of Normandy" sort of stuff, more swashbuckling, less black and white decisions with more gray consequences. Stuff happens, individuals become epic heroes or not, the world changes irrevocably. A new twist on the Merlin - Arthur archetype, without this being at all about Arthurian characters. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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A sword-and-sorcery classic from the Aurora Award-winning author of the King's Blades series. Wally Smith, having died on Earth, finds himself reincarnated as a swordsman in another world and entrusted by the presiding goddess with a mission that has no appeal for him at all. Can he bring together all the swordsmen to finally defeat the sorcerors and their terrible technology? Wally is not quite convinced he should, but goddesses can be very persuasive . . . This is the third and final exciting book, after The Reluctant Swordsman and The Coming of Wisdom, in the Seventh Sword Trilogy. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Still, it was a fun read, and definitely kept me up at night. Essentially read it in two days and two nights. ( )