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A review by debznfozbooks
The King Without a Kingdom by Maurice Druon
2.0
I really didn't like the new format of someone narrating. It seemed really jarring. Like a one man stage play. No one speaks in this way.
In fact I really struggled to engage because it didn't work for me. A constant flow of dialogue from one person. It was forced.
For example "I took you with me that morning" as dialogue it just makes no sense.
The whole book seemed like a very long epilogue written in a style totally different to the rest of the books. There was no one left to really interest me and the style of writing made me lose the plot. Who is that person? Who is that again?
Around the middle a story did emerge that was engaging enough to put up with the style but still. The narration was really odd.
Personally for me, I'd have been happy to end on the previous book. I can understand why this one wasn't published in English for so long. The whole story became obscured under the ramblings of an old man so I ended up reading pages and pages with no real idea of what was going on,
I finished because I wanted to complete the whole series but I didn't enjoy it as much which is a shame.
However you are left yet again with the feeling that these overgrown children (nobles) are just playing at war while the people who really suffer are the poor people and ordinary people. And nothing much has changed.
In fact I really struggled to engage because it didn't work for me. A constant flow of dialogue from one person. It was forced.
For example "I took you with me that morning" as dialogue it just makes no sense.
The whole book seemed like a very long epilogue written in a style totally different to the rest of the books. There was no one left to really interest me and the style of writing made me lose the plot. Who is that person? Who is that again?
Around the middle a story did emerge that was engaging enough to put up with the style but still. The narration was really odd.
Personally for me, I'd have been happy to end on the previous book. I can understand why this one wasn't published in English for so long. The whole story became obscured under the ramblings of an old man so I ended up reading pages and pages with no real idea of what was going on,
I finished because I wanted to complete the whole series but I didn't enjoy it as much which is a shame.
However you are left yet again with the feeling that these overgrown children (nobles) are just playing at war while the people who really suffer are the poor people and ordinary people. And nothing much has changed.