 – Customer review on 02/05/2008
Quite impressed.
I haven't read the book series, huge multi-novel fantasy series are not really my thing, but this has been intriguing for a while.
I have, however, read some of the earlier short stories, so basically knew the setting, and the characters of Roland and Cort at least.
This was really good. Lee seems to have adapted his style to fit this dark Western type background, with sorcery, mutant cats, witches and decaying technological remnants - a fairly bizarre mismatch of stuff that seems to work well.
I think I like the writing more in this adaptation than some of the stories, too. The old-fashioned American prose can get a bit wearying at times, but it appears to be smoothed a little here and is more palatable.
Boys sent on a mission of important that have to grow up fast, leaving an unsettled situation behind them and a war backdrop and seemingly evil enemies to face seems to work pretty well.
Horror, or dark fantasy, or whatever you want to call it, so things will be not nice.
Definitely surprised by how good this was.
4.5 out of 5
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