Title: just too slow
Product review: After reading Fortress in the Eye of Time I was eager to savour this celtic effort by the same author.I found the same neat, accurate writing, the same fastidious attention to detail, the same unconventional characters.Mr/Ms Cherryh (I still have not found out which) shapes a fascinating twilight world were dimming elves, more inhuman than I have ever found them in a fantasy, are fading leaving their place to humans. There is no sense a fulfillment, nor predestination. Just sadness.It is not easy to create a novel out of these ideas. The author managed it in Fortress in the Eye of time, but this time unfortunately there is no plot. Nothing really happens in this book. Absolutely nothing. Characters do not come to life. You never connect with them. The atmosphere is fascinating but the final effect is boring.A disappointment.
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