Title: An insult to the genre
Review: There is retelling of traditional folklore. There is new, innovative fantasy fiction made up from the imagination of a modern author. And then there is the cheap ripoff of the first in the guise of the latter.David Drake is a marginal author, and has very little new or original in any book of his that I have read. I thought perhaps this would be different, but I see he is set in a formulaic rut, where characters are wooden, plots are obvious, and all the old archetypes get trotted out in the hope of capitalizing on their popularity. If you are looking for anything new or different, you will not find it here.
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