Saturday, December 13, 2008

Magician: Apprentice

This is (so far) the worst book I've read this year and the worst high fantasy novel I've ever read. It's not like this book is deliberately offensive, or the like, but it's just not very good. There's no craft or style to the prose, the plot is dull, and the end of the book neither pays any attention to the main character, nor is it...uh...interesting. It's abjectly boring. I only finished it in the hopes that it would get better, and it didn't.

RATING: 16% (which means that it is better than Lake Erie, and worse than Lake Huron)

6 comments:

Belabras said...

It's pretty much only a decent read if you are 12.

Sadly, Feist never gets much better as an author either.

John said...

If you like mediocre high fantasy I recommend Clive Barker's Weaveworld, The Great and Secret Show, or Damnation Game. That guy sure fell off after his first short story collection.

Belabras said...

I thought Imajica was alright.

Walter Benjamin and the Mechanical Reproductions (the band) said...

who the heck is bellabras

Walter Benjamin and the Mechanical Reproductions (the band) said...

i only ask because im impressed by your knowlidge of high fantasy authors

Walter Benjamin and the Mechanical Reproductions (the band) said...

btw is there such a thing as mediocre high fantasy-seems like it would be low or middling fantasy hth