Black Sun Rising by C. S. Friedman
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Black Sun Rising: The Coldfire Trilogy #1 by C.S. FriedmanMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
Sorry, sorry, I know this is beloved of the hive mind, but after reading it, I’m kind of giving the hive mind a bit of the side-eye. Because not to judge – no, cancel that, no one will believe it anyway. I totally judge, and my judgment says obnoxiously purple prose, clumsy pacing, that kind of book that thinks it’s deep and morally ambiguous to write about evil people being forced to help out the white hats, when actually it’s just emo. Also, way to completely fail to use all the potential inherent in this notion of a planet whose energies respond to human emotion with everything from monsters to fast-tracked native evolution. Why couldn’t I have read about that, instead of this endless bland quest?
This gets better, right? Right?
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Date: 2011-05-29 05:32 pm (UTC)I vaguely liked them when I was 16, and the idea of the notion of a planet where stuff is what you believe it is still vaguely lives in my head and appalls and horrifies me from time to time, but I just don't give a shit about her Stupid Sexy Vampire.
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Date: 2011-05-29 08:17 pm (UTC)Oh, word.