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Title: For adolescents looking for violent wish-fulfilment fantasies
Review: Short summary: don't bother.Longer version:You want an epic journey with freaky animals? Read "The Worm Ouroboros"You want half-baked quantum mechanics? At least Douglas Adams made it amusing in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"You want deep-sea monsters? Try John Wyndham's "The Kraken Wakes"You want magic mixed with technology? At least Terry Pratchett's books are not pretentious about it.You want complicated political plots in a fantasy world? The Titus Groan books by Mervyn Peak are way ahead of this.If you want a lame pastiche of all the above, with a tedious plot, an anticlimax at the end and the whole mess seasoned with a dollop of torture, this is the book for you.The author tried hard to cram in as many sub-plots, as many monstrous creatures, as much cruelty and as much pseudo-scientific hokum as he could and simply ignored the bits that couldn't be explained.
