**** As the subject states: This is a spoilers thread. Don't read if you haven't read the book. **** On Jun 16, 2005, at 12:19 PM, Richard Chilton wrote:
Spoilers for the Tyranny of the Night
I haven't been online for a day or three - I've been reading this book at every spare moment. I hated putting it down.
I had very different experience. I kept putting this book down. This book was a lot of boredom with the occasional bright spot of interest. Setting a book in our world, or one similar, with all the name changes was annoying. And worse, Glen seemed to enjoy sharing all these new names and places with no real framework to hang them on. A third of the way through I didn't care anymore and story got mired in the details. Or perhaps the lack of details. Too often Glen spent time in the details at some 30,000 foot level of the politics and geography and didn't spend time with the characters. He dropped the squad nature of Black Company and went back to the epic story of Dread Empire. But in the process he left the characters behind. The Dread Empire was done right. The Dread Empire had a big story to tell and Glen did a much better job of telling it with characters. These characters you got to know and love after the first book. Varthlokkur, Bragi, Mocker, Nepanthe, and Haroun are classic. I was hoping with a fresh trilogy that Glen would give us a new round of vibrant characters like Croaker, Goblin, Elmo, SoulCatcher, Lady, and Raven. But this book has no soul and not much Else. -- Sebastian <shpshftr@xmission.com>