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| Original Title: | Sea of Silver Light |
| ISBN: | 0641645473 (ISBN13: 9780641645471) |
| Series: | Otherland #4 |
Tad Williams
Hardcover | Pages: 688 pages Rating: 4.14 | 12771 Users | 278 Reviews
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| Title | : | Sea of Silver Light (Otherland #4) |
| Author | : | Tad Williams |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 688 pages |
| Published | : | April 10th 2001 by DAW Hardcover |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Science Fiction. Fiction |
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This book, the fourth in a four-book fantasy series, is an amazing example of how a good idea can be stretched and diluted until it is no longer pleasurable to read. There is nothing particularly wrong with the Otherland series. The ideas are interesting, the execution is fairly creative, some of the characters are competently developed, etc. But it is clear that the objective of the author (and the editor/publisher) was to create a large series (measured by the heft of the books and the number of trees killed), rather than to tell a good story. This could have been a fantastic effort if edited to about a 1000 pages or so. But the padding and circumlocution required to turn it into four 1000-page books makes reading it annoying. Instead of more things happening, you have the same number of plot events stretched slowly out. The style of the chapters, in which we return again and again for brief glimpses of the action, only makes the sense of non-action worse. I will say this - if you were on some kind of long vacation, or holed up in a room for a while, or whatever, and you wanted something to read, this series would kill a lot of time. Otherwise, you have things to do with your life.Rating Appertaining To Books Sea of Silver Light (Otherland #4)
Ratings: 4.14 From 12771 Users | 278 ReviewsPiece Appertaining To Books Sea of Silver Light (Otherland #4)
Finally the end! All is revealed!Really though, everything is explained in this final volume (as you would hope). And while on the surface it is a satisfying conclusion, it may just be the natural high in reaction to finishing the darn thing. Some 3300 pages and it's done!As I mentioned in reviews about the first three parts, verbiage is plentiful and there are plenty of maddening delays in answer giving. Then, when the answers come, they are heavy in info dumping exposition. Aren't we everSea of Silver Light is the next book in the series and has our characters finally getting to grips with their opposition and overcoming them! :D This was hinted at and heavily set up in the previous book with the gang encountering the 'Other' directly for the first as well being scattered to a mountain top! :D Understandably this gives and sets a number of big challenges for this book and sets you wondering as to what the characters are going to be put through as the book progresses as the size
So, why did I read all four of these if I hated the first one so much? Well, I got to the end of the first one and was infuriated by how little I knew about what was really going on. I already owned the second book when I started reading the first, and it seemed insane not to read it if I already owned it. I was hoping they would improve, and I wanted to know how the whole series ended. Truly, I wish I had not bothered. A shocking waste of time.
Compelling characters and a plotline that could be the envy of any writer. Best books I've read in a good while. The teenage netslang was a bit off sometimes, but that's not why I gave the last book of the Otherland series 4 stars - it's the ending. Everybody gets their reward, all the baddies are duly punished :yawn: a bit like Sunday school. It sort of killed the whole story for me. SPOILERDid the author absolutely have to resurrect Orlando? He was one of my favorite characters and when Sam
I think the main problem that I had with this book was that for such a gritty, intense series, the ending seemed....too fairytale? Everything and everyone ends up ok and everything works out. It just seems inconsistent with the three giant books of (seemingly meaningless) struggle.
Executive Summary: This series is a monster, and thankfully after all those hours, it comes to an enjoyable conclusion.Audio book: Yup, George Newbern is still excellent. I might have liked this series less in text due to the slow parts, but Mr. Newbern really brings the world and it's characters to life in a way that put him up there in the top tier of audiobook narrators for me. Full Review This review will be a bit lighter than it probably would have been had I written it a month ago. Time
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