A review by hteph
Shadow Prowler by Алексей Пехов, Alexey Pehov, Andrew Bloomfield

3.0

This book is like a spaggethi bolongese , you have eaten it a hundred times before, but it is filling and with excellent cooking skill it is a feast. The book is true and pure fantasy vanilla. It uses some slightly differen shades on standard tropes and archetypes, but do not actually add anything to the genre. Instead it rests comfortably on on the standrards and the thing that saves it from blending into the faceless soup of fan writing is the prose. Even if the translation certainly has killed the most if it, the poetic expressions and philosofical expressions of the russian language is present. The author manage to write a enjoyable book in first person view, not a small achievment and as long as you do not mind High Fantasy and/or Sword and Sorcery I think you will enjoy it. It is reading Fritz Leiber with a slight seasoning of War and Peace and in the direction of Scott Lynch...