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Title: A great disappointment
Review: I am a huge fan of the first chronicles of Amber and have read that series several times. When Zelazny returned to writing Amber stories based on Merlin I had high hopes, but with each new book I found that the magic was slipping further and further away.In this final book it feels like Zelazny had written himself into a corner and just wanted to end it. There is no true conclusion here, only dangling plots that we will never see resolved.For the Amber completist, get it from the library and slog through it. Otherwise stick to the first five books of Corwin for that is where the true magic is held. Nothing will ever come close to the first five books and this last book is as far from that greatness as the Courts of Chaos are from Amber itself.
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