Shadows Return (Nightrunner, Bk. 4)
by Lynn Flewelling
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Author: Lynn FlewellingEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-06-24
ISBN: 0553590081
Number of pages: 544
Publisher: Spectra
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Book Review: A beach read, unfortunately
Summary: 3 Stars
Many of the reviews already posted here are spot-on regarding the book's weaknesses: the surprising shallowness of the characters, the lack of plot complexity (which ties in with the novel's relative brevity), and the overkill in the use of magic. [Minor spoiler alert.....] I mean, a resurrection? When fantasy authors do that, without any hint of a downside to the process, I start to lose interest. Magic, when handled well by an author, is simply a tool much like any other, not a miracle-on-demand machine.
To this list of problems I would add one other aspect of the book that bothered me quite a bit, which was the relative insignificance of the stakes involved. In the first three Nightrunner novels, Seregil and Alec are either saving the world, or trying to steer the fate of nations in benign directions; here, they're just trying to save themselves. While that's a worthy goal, it doesn't require heroes, and their characters have been sadly diminished by the relative smallness of scope allowed them here.
I, too, hope the next installment redeems this one, but I must say that if you're a fan of the first three books, you might want to wait until the verdict is out on the next novel before wading into these waters.
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