![]() He's in league with some escaped prisoners who mock his piety, and I'm sure he eventually makes moral compromises or turns out to be a hypocrite. As much as it deserves mocking, it doesn't make for good reading, or at least not for hundreds of pages. There's a grizzled barbarian, a disillusioned minor magic user, and an idealistic young fighter who's only purpose is to mock the concept of the "hero's journey". The world building is good - the gods of old were killed years ago, their powers stolen by megalomaniac magicians. Having gotten several thousand pages into it, I can only include that fantasy fans are incredible wimps. ![]() I picked up The Blade Itself after reading pearl-clutching reviews of how violent, gory, and nihilistic it is. It does this while maintaining the core theme of High Fantasy - walking from one place to another. ![]() ![]() Grimdark is supposed to be a dark, morally ambiguous reaction to the strict good/evil dichotomy in High Fantasy, much as spaghetti westerns were to the white hat/black hat oaters. ![]()
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