The Kings of Eternity by
Eric Brown My rating:
2 of 5 stars I'm certain the Kings of Eternity fancied themselves to be quite something. The only thing I would say is they were dependably bland. I had high hopes for this book and it just didn't reach those heights. Slightly up, slightly down, but never so far in either direction to force me to keep turning pages. It was almost a book without conflict.
Even the most important choices in the book are delivered in such a way to minimize their impact. I'm not going to give anything away, but there were many times while I was reading that I thought, "that's the part I want to see! Why didn't he write that bit!?!"
One of my friends said it best when he said he wanted to read the story of the man that traveled through the rift rather than the story of those that stayed behind.
The part that I think frustrates me the most is that the writing and language use is really good. It was an easy, smooth, flowing read. Despite (or maybe because) things didn't happen to these characters I kept flying through the pages looking for something to pop up. I think this could be described as a comfortable book. No worries, things will just glide along smoothly, even when the characters should be quite upset. They'll open another liquor bottle and fix things right up!
I've got to say this book lands around two and a half stars - it was ok, but might slide right out of memory.
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