A review by katieinca
Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg

2.0

This has been the oldest thing on my To Read list here for a long time (13 years!). Apparently it won awards. What was up with you, 1981? The style is odd - it sometimes felt more like a retelling of an old fable or myth than a novel. “X happened, and then y, and then they all went to z”, not a ton of dialog, and an eventual triumph that we march towards inevitably. It spends a lot of time describing the world at the expense of developing anything else, especially characters. The chapters are short and when I was reading I’d often want to read just one more, but once I put it down I was never in a hurry to pick it up again. It was okay, but I won’t be continuing with the series.