Another famous writer bits the dust!
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I agree with the others, I too am a great Smith fan, some wonderful books! but this isn't one of them. The first 100 pages or so are childish rubbisn, but it does improve. However it often descends into the absolute ridiculous!
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The Quest
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I am a great Wilbur Smith fan, but he has failed in this one to grab the reader's attention. I ploughed my way laboriously through, but it was a struggle. It is not in any way believable. Many of his others are pure fantasy, but at least they have a thread of believability and are very gripping. Such a disappointment.
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The Quest
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I've read a number of Wilber Smith's books in the past but was never drawn to this period in time. On an impulse I decided to try The Quest. As a novel on its own I found the read increasingly intense. To coin a much abused phrase I could not put the book down. I didnt want to reach the end. Thoroughly absorbing and distracting. I have now gone back to the begining of the series and have ordered the rest from Amazon.
Read it or regret it.
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Don't bother
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I love wilbur smith and i loved river god and warlock was good also so when The Quest came out i was eager to read it.
I was so disapointed despite my love of both the author and the re-invention of several of the charictors from warlock it was awfull and weak.
If you really want to read this then get it from a library don't spend money on it.
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Awful
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So disappointed. I loved River God, Seventh Scroll, and Warlock. Smith here departs entirely from what made those books such magnificent reads, and churns out instead nonsensical magic-heavy rubbish.
Let me say here that I do actually enjoy fantasy books, so it's not that I simply object to the new focus of this book. It's just that it's a badly written fantasy novel, with no redeeming features. It lacks the internal consistency essential for fantasy to work- new rules governing how the world works are fine, but if they are just made up as they go along through the book, there's no satisfaction to seeing how everythin pans out.
So- badly written, weak characters (bring back the Taita of old!), nonsense plot. Don't waste your money, whether a WS fan or a fantasy fan.
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