[share_ebook] Reaper\'s Gale

图书介绍

• Author: Steven Erikson

This review is being written with attention to not including spoilers. The book is available from amazon.co.uk and amazon.ca now.

Erikson mostly returns to the letherii continent for this 900-page short book, and carries on the story following the aftermath of the Tiste Edur conquest of Letherii, the Sengar brothers, the eventual arrival of Karsa and Icarium for their fights with Rhulud, as well as bringing elements from The Bonehunters into the story and following events after the end of that novel. Some major plot threads are explored or expanded, others resolved, others left more nebulous than before. He certainly moves his story forward, avoiding the trap so many long-series fantasy authors seem to fall into.

At times Erikson is jumping between literally a dozen perspectives in 5 or more distinct geographic locations, and between pages 500-700 this does begin to get old, but in all this story moves nicely and you are left wishing there was another book in sight to continue...

It's a great story, and well worth the extra shipping expense of ordering now rather than waiting for US publication.