Greenmantle
by Charles de Lint
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Author: Charles de LintEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998-06-15
ISBN: 0312865104
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Orb Books
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Book Review: 2 stories don't necessarily equal a 1 great book
Summary: 2 Stars
I am an avid fan of the work of Charles de lint, having read the Moonheart and Newford series, The Little Country and Into the Green. I read Greenmantle after reading de lints previous highly acclaimed works, but I found it hard to finish. It seemed as though de lint had two unfinished stories to start with: Valenti and his mob relations, and the mystery of Greenmantle and Mally, and simply combined the two together in an attempt to let each story carry the other along. It works, but not as well as it should have. Both stories contained enough conflict and subplotting within eachother, that I began to get the feeling if I read every other chapter, I'd be walking away with just as much as if I read it straight through. If Greenmantle put it's focus on _one_ of the two stories, it would have been, in my opinion, more enjoyable to read. Towards the end of the book, I felt no ties with any of the characters that I'd had with Izzy of Mem&Dream, or Sara and Pukwudji in Moonheart.(try as I might have with Mally, one of the most intriguing and enjoyable characters of GM, that deserved more of a story behind her) This is not to say I was completely disenchanted with Greenmantle. There were parts of the book I really liked, particularly the focus it put around the mythological Pan, and the final fight Ally makes for the Green Man. However, I don't regard this book as one of de lint's best. I think if you're a hard core de lint fan, then you'll probably cherish the spot on your bookshelf where it stands (if not hunt me down first for disagreeing), but personally I've read far better from him.
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