Wolfe, Gene

• Series: The Book of the New Sun
  • The Shadow of the Torturer (7 r)
  • The Claw of the Conciliator (5 r)
  • The Sword of the Lictor (5 r)
  • The Citadel of the Autarch (4 r)

    • Well, I was recommended to Wolfe very highly by some friends, so I gave this a go. It is a fantasy story mostly in the first person about the life of a torturer after he abandons his job and goes travelling. Very dark and foreboding, which kind of depressed me, and the vocabulary was enough to make me stumble several times. It's tough to recommend this one, but I can't really find anything bad to say about it. Proceed with caution.

• Free Live Free (1 r)

  • Book set in the modern day world about a bunch of people involved in murder and mysticism. To be honest, I just flat-out disliked this book. Had a lot of the problems of the New Sun series (too dark and too many uselessly archaic words) with none of the good things (like a good plot and interesting characters).

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