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Witch King by Martha Wells
Jun. 22nd, 2023 10:30 amWitch King
3/5. Standalone fantasy about the demon who wakes up in a water trap and has to escape and find his allies and figure out WTF happened to him.
Unpopular opinion time – I thought this was fine. Approximately as fine as the other fantasies of hers I’ve tried: I’ve never been really into any of it. TBF the library gave me this book literally the day we moved and I read the first 10% of it while starting to unpack that night. So that can explain some of my confusion, though not all of it since this book spends an awfully long time switching timelines and variously hiding the ball on how things work. The pleasure is supposed to be in working out the worldbuilding for yourself, which I did eventually do, but that’s all a lot more fun when the worldbuilding itself is interesting, and I didn’t think this was.
Definitely an unpopular take. And I will say there are some nice character beats in here. But overall, eh, it needed another editing pass with specific attention to the timelines structure, and I needed to read it under different circumstances.
Am I caught up yet? Ahahaha no. My stress reading knows no reason.
3/5. Standalone fantasy about the demon who wakes up in a water trap and has to escape and find his allies and figure out WTF happened to him.
Unpopular opinion time – I thought this was fine. Approximately as fine as the other fantasies of hers I’ve tried: I’ve never been really into any of it. TBF the library gave me this book literally the day we moved and I read the first 10% of it while starting to unpack that night. So that can explain some of my confusion, though not all of it since this book spends an awfully long time switching timelines and variously hiding the ball on how things work. The pleasure is supposed to be in working out the worldbuilding for yourself, which I did eventually do, but that’s all a lot more fun when the worldbuilding itself is interesting, and I didn’t think this was.
Definitely an unpopular take. And I will say there are some nice character beats in here. But overall, eh, it needed another editing pass with specific attention to the timelines structure, and I needed to read it under different circumstances.
Am I caught up yet? Ahahaha no. My stress reading knows no reason.