Title: Find Something Better
Product review: Zelazny creates some powerful imagery in this novel but not much else. Like many fantasy writers he paints fantastic scenery and invokes images both powerfully sublime and frightfully horrible. Yet the characters are flat, the dialogue is tedious, the story is slow, and there is no real cohesion to the mythic structure of the story. What Zelazny turns out is a generic fantasy story that never reaches deep enough into the human heart to resonate with those who don't exclusively enjoy fantasy. He also uses a strange sort of 1970's style detective lingo when writing dialogue which seems completely out of place in this story. Also, as is unfortunately common in fantasy, some disturbing misogynistic undertones churn throughout this story. I give it a D+.
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