reliures's review
5.0
I sincerely hope Marc Turner will continue this series one day, because The Chronicles of the Exile has become one of my favourite book series ever. The world building is just phenomenal, each culture and characters are super detailed but rather than being written in a dumping info kind of way, it's done bit by bit, giving these novels a very slow burn atmosphere. Everything is just incredible rich and diverse with a real originality and complexity to it.
I love the way he plotted each book, with the different characters starting their own stories separately then everything coming together in such an organic way.
embem28's review
5.0
Great to read the next step in the story. I admit it wasn't as gripping as the first two but definitely got more into it as I moved through the book. I can't wait for the next part of the story!
gregg's review
3.0
I had to wait until the price came down for me to get this and I was looking forward to seeing how it would end. I get to the last third of the book and then I can start tell there will need to be another book or more to finish this story. I enjoyed When the Heavens Fall and Dragon Hunters. I enjoyed Red Tide as well. Could do with a little of some of those elements that make it so great to read. You start to feel like oh no more dark and troubling insights into the human condition. Still I will want to read more if and when the next book comes around. Doesn't appear another book coming in this series
kitschbitsch's review
4.0
Apparently this is, or was supposed to be, the third in a six book series. I can’t find any trace of the rest anywhere. This is a crying shame as this is a bloody good book and there’s enough threads (see what I did there) left hanging for this to be severely annoying.
vinayvasan's review
4.0
What a bloody brilliant ambitious book and series. Marc Turner's the Chronicles of the Exile series could be the modern day Malazan. Given the set up through the previous 2 disparate books, he draws the strings together here by bringing back some of the characters from each of the previous books while introducing new ones and at the same time finally revealing the emperor who has pulling the strings silently in the background
Picking up almost immediately where book 2 ends (some might even say book 1), Turner spends sometime drawing the veil back on another part of the world and a new set of characters there as well as the associated politics, backstabbing and family issues. Into this simmering cauldron, our surviving characters from book 2 (and book 1) are introduced. Till around 30% of the book goes into the set up, following which things explode and go out of hand badly for everyone. Limits are pushed, lines are crossed and the reckoning is spectacular
Some of the threads are pretty cool to follow esp the book 2 characters. Where the book falters a bit is with respect to the return of book 1 characters. The storyline wasnt as compelling as some of the others and takes a bit of the narrative momentum away. But like with most things, Turner seems to be playing the long game and some of the actions and alliances formed here are likely to be significant (One can only hope)
Epic, gritty, ambitious, Red Tide is an exciting entry into the series and Chronicles of the Exile truly has the potential to be a modern day great fantasy series
Picking up almost immediately where book 2 ends (some might even say book 1), Turner spends sometime drawing the veil back on another part of the world and a new set of characters there as well as the associated politics, backstabbing and family issues. Into this simmering cauldron, our surviving characters from book 2 (and book 1) are introduced. Till around 30% of the book goes into the set up, following which things explode and go out of hand badly for everyone. Limits are pushed, lines are crossed and the reckoning is spectacular
Some of the threads are pretty cool to follow esp the book 2 characters. Where the book falters a bit is with respect to the return of book 1 characters. The storyline wasnt as compelling as some of the others and takes a bit of the narrative momentum away. But like with most things, Turner seems to be playing the long game and some of the actions and alliances formed here are likely to be significant (One can only hope)
Epic, gritty, ambitious, Red Tide is an exciting entry into the series and Chronicles of the Exile truly has the potential to be a modern day great fantasy series
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