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Review title: High fantasy!?!
Product review: I don't know how this can be billed as high fantasy or be compared with Tolkien. It's poorly and inconsistently written. There are some very strange swings in the character's motivations and personalities and the story wavers between attempts at high myth and scenes that are ridiculous and embarassing. Example: At one point the main character uses her magical abilities to make the astounding discovery that a particular artifact is a toilet. The further I got into the book, the more I stopped caring about the characters. Frequently, the dialog made me wince.Throughout, the book lacks the sort of ethical and aesthetic vision necessary to high fantasy, although the author occasionally does a good job evoking the grandeur of a fallen past.This is pulp fantasy. There are some interesting ideas and scenes here, and the author has some talent--but she lacks the judgment to use it well.
