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A review by doorisajar
Surrender to the Will of the Night by Glen Cook
2.0
This is the longest I've ever taken over a novel by Glen Cook -- usually I plow through them in a matter of days, or a couple of weeks at the most. This one took ~5 months, with multiple weeks in there where I didn't touch it.
Simply put, not enough happens in the middle third of the books. I've never thought Cook needed an editor before, since his prose tends toward sparse, but in this case, whole sections of plot either needed to be cut -- since they didn't add much beyond moving some characters around -- or expanded to make them interesting.
To make matters worse, the book ends on a cliffhanger, having spent its last third getting progressively more interesting. I'm not sure if I'm on board for the next book in this series; I want to know what happens, but not if it means another slog like this.
Simply put, not enough happens in the middle third of the books. I've never thought Cook needed an editor before, since his prose tends toward sparse, but in this case, whole sections of plot either needed to be cut -- since they didn't add much beyond moving some characters around -- or expanded to make them interesting.
To make matters worse, the book ends on a cliffhanger, having spent its last third getting progressively more interesting. I'm not sure if I'm on board for the next book in this series; I want to know what happens, but not if it means another slog like this.