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Title: The Darkness that Comes before...is a bore!
Review: We start with a terrific prologue introducing a fascinating character...who is missing for page after page after page. (I'm at 305 and still haven't been reintroduced to him, but I plug on.) Characters are confusing. His character list is at the back of the book, not at the front, so one just muddles along trying to figure out who's who and who's from where. Bakker is so busy introducing characters (with too similar names) and describing scenes, and the angst! But he forgets to get his plot moving. Tolkien, too, came up with a complicated world, but he chose a character that one could identify with, and pushed him out into the world where we followed along.This promises to be another Robert Jordan going on forever and ever and ever unto the 9th or is it 10th power and one finally just plain gives up. I'm giving up now and thanking my lucky stars it was a library book. I'd never give it shelf-space.
