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A review by koshpeli
Knight of Shadows by Roger Zelazny
3.0
Slower and more confusing
This one dragged a lot. I didn’t like that just about the time a lot of the mysteries of the previous books were being sewn up, he introduced some more questions. Then before answering those questions, he throws in a totally different and weird subplot. I guess it may be setting things up for the last book, but I found my self putting the book down and avoiding picking it back up. I finally muscled through. The last quarter gets back to the main plots and more action, but again in weird ways.
Sometimes it feels like Zelazny just didn’t know how to keep suspense going so he just throws in a weird unrelated event. I’m also totally perplexed by Marion’s relationship to Luke. It’s painfully obvious that Luke has been manipulating events but Melon doesn’t seem to care. In fact, I think if Luke cut Merlin’s head off and killed his whole family, Merlin would be like “Dude, that’s so you. Anyway, I brought you a rare vintage of wine to celebrate your mass murder. I wish I could figure out why you killed me but now that I’m dead, here’s a nuclear bomb so you can destroy the universe!”
This one dragged a lot. I didn’t like that just about the time a lot of the mysteries of the previous books were being sewn up, he introduced some more questions. Then before answering those questions, he throws in a totally different and weird subplot. I guess it may be setting things up for the last book, but I found my self putting the book down and avoiding picking it back up. I finally muscled through. The last quarter gets back to the main plots and more action, but again in weird ways.
Sometimes it feels like Zelazny just didn’t know how to keep suspense going so he just throws in a weird unrelated event. I’m also totally perplexed by Marion’s relationship to Luke. It’s painfully obvious that Luke has been manipulating events but Melon doesn’t seem to care. In fact, I think if Luke cut Merlin’s head off and killed his whole family, Merlin would be like “Dude, that’s so you. Anyway, I brought you a rare vintage of wine to celebrate your mass murder. I wish I could figure out why you killed me but now that I’m dead, here’s a nuclear bomb so you can destroy the universe!”