This is the second volume of the series, Shadow Chaser, following Shadow Prowler I reviewed a while ago. Once again, a rather pleasant, quick read. When I started Shadow Chaser, a few days ago, I realised I had basically forgotten everything from the first volume, however the story is light enough and the characters sufficiently caricaturesque to make this almost irrelevant! The main character, Harold, actually sounds dull compared with his companions, but the pace is fast enough to overcome this default in the plot. I am not convinced I will remember much of Shadow Chaser when my colleague at Dauphine drops the third volume, Shadow Blizzard, on my desk, but this does not really matter, as I will most certainly enjoy this Edding-esque fantasy novel and just as certainly quickly forget about it.
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Shadow Chaser
Posted in Statistics with tags Alexey Pehov, book reviews, Shadow Chaser, Shadow Prowler on September 30, 2012 by xi'anShadow Prowler
Posted in Books with tags Alexey Pehov, book review, David Eddings, heroic fantasy, Shadow Prowler on March 26, 2011 by xi'an
A colleague at the University dropped this book on my desk a week ago as he had read it on his way back from Texas. Shadow Prowler makes for an easy travel [even local travel] read, indeed, and its action-packed plot is sufficiently captivating to miss one’s metro station! Now, this is not either the fantasy discovery of the year. While translated from the Russian, the style of Shadow Prowler is very similar to American writers’, especially David Eddings’, with a lot of wise cracks and witty remarks. (I had to check on biddenhänder, though!) The plot itself resembles very much Eddings’, especially the Elenium trilogy, with its collection of well-defined (kind of caricaturesque) characters, and not much time to introspection nor subtlety. Far from the creativity of Brent Weeks and his Night Angel trilogy for instance. Nonetheless, it makes for a very enjoyable, uncomplicated, quick read and I am looking forward the second tome (coming out next month, more realistically whenever my colleague can get hold of it!).
