The Shadow Of The Lion
by Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint
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Author: Eric Flint, Mercedes LackeyEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-09-01
ISBN: 0743471474
Number of pages: 936
Publisher: Baen
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Book Review: 900 pages & it doesn't end?
Summary: 3 Stars
OK, in paperback, this is almost 900 pages. Almost too large to hold. I leave it to others to discuss its relationship to Merovingen Nights, the co-ordinatation (or lack thereof) of the three authors.
It's a slow read. For the first hundred pages, or more, one really has no idea where the story is going. It's a bit like entering the middle of a 20-part series. OF course, in one sense, this is not all bad. This is a book one can easily put down at almost any time and pick up later.
And I truly dislike the sections that deal with the evil/monster. They are written in that oblique form that has become, apparently, so fashionable in the past 20 years - where words make up sentences which make up paragraphs which make up pages which leave you wondering who, what, when, where and why. (I admit to a certain bit of admiration for the ability of writers to string real words into an impenetrable fog of meaninglessness, but I don't like reading them.)
But, finally, the problem is the "finally". Although what turns out to be the central problem of the novel is resolved, the lives of the characters and the history are not. (Consider a novel about D-Day that ends after the landing in Normandy. There's still a whole war to win.)
It feels, unbelievably given the length, as if the writers planned a sequel - which, it turns out is the truth. This is the first of four books in what Lackey calls the Heirs of Alexandria Series. Unfortunately, in at least the edition I bought, there is no indication that this is so.
Worth reading? Worth buying? I'm ambivalent. I don't resent the hours I spent reading it, but I'm not sure that I am interested enough in the characters or the alternate history to read the next 3 books in the series.
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