12.31.2004
Lord Valentine's Castle
by Robert Silverberg, 447 pgs, paperback
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Overall Grade: C+
This book pretty much lived up to my expectations of fantasy novels, which is why I don't read a lot of them. The gist being that sourcery is somehow used to displace the ruler (called Coronal) of the planet Majipoor into a different body & stiffle his memory while the mind of the son of another ruler is placed in his body. The main character Valentine slows learns who is he, must accept it, blah blah blah, and reclaim his throne. He reconnects with the peasantry along his travels, blah blah blah. The only interesting bit was how the false Coronal is finally caught, which in itself is pretty blah, but leaves some very interesting motives behind who exactly usurped the throne. But if you want to find that out, you'll have to read the book.
Amazon site
Overall Grade: C+
This book pretty much lived up to my expectations of fantasy novels, which is why I don't read a lot of them. The gist being that sourcery is somehow used to displace the ruler (called Coronal) of the planet Majipoor into a different body & stiffle his memory while the mind of the son of another ruler is placed in his body. The main character Valentine slows learns who is he, must accept it, blah blah blah, and reclaim his throne. He reconnects with the peasantry along his travels, blah blah blah. The only interesting bit was how the false Coronal is finally caught, which in itself is pretty blah, but leaves some very interesting motives behind who exactly usurped the throne. But if you want to find that out, you'll have to read the book.
Labels: genre: fantasy, genre: fiction, media: book, series: Majipoor
