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Title: For Donaldson Die-Hards Only
Review: Unlike many readers (as gauged by the reviews posted here on Amazon), I have not read the prior Thomas Covenant series of books . Instead, as I had done with Robin Hobb's excellent "Fool's Errand", I had hoped to read the first book from the new series and then, while awaiting book 2, read the first (2) series.Unfortunately, for me, that will not occur. Nor will a sojourn into book two (through a purported four) of this series.I found the primary protagonist (Lianden) unempathetic (perhaps even pathetic) and, worse, the author's general writing ponderous and... lacking.I, admittedly, can't attest to how this book stacks up to its predecessors. I can only state that compared to its contemporaries that I have read (Steven Erikson, Robin Hobb, George RR Martin, Robert Jordan, to name a few), I found that it didn't stack up well at all.
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