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Loading... A Dance of Cloaks (Shadowdance Trilogy, Book 1) (original 2010; edition 2010)by David Dalglish (Author)
Work InformationA Dance of Cloaks by David Dalglish (2010)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. so if you start the book it's a 2 star and climbs more and more the deeper you read this book. The first 1/3 of the book is sooo slow but once it starts to build, you'll be happy you kept reading. It's a surprisingly good strong ending and I can't wait to read the next installment. ( ) I want to give this four stars. It was a good book... I think. It just didn't stick. I had to reread it halfway through even though I didn't leave it for too long. I really wanted to feel more invested, but some scenes really suffered from telling, not showing. Maybe the writing was a smidge too modern for the setting. I'm still going to count myself a fan of David Dalglish and hope his writing gets more polished! A lot of reviews liken it to A Game of Thrones, but other than naming a place Riverrun and occasionally doing that fun thing where they talk about a person like they're actually the animal of their logo, I didn't see it. It felt more like Brent Weeks' [b:The Way of Shadows|3227063|The Way of Shadows (Night Angel, #1)|Brent Weeks|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327881551s/3227063.jpg|3261241]. This is just painfully ordinary. A plethora of characters unremarkable in their remarkableness (the epic ruthless thief-guild-leader; the beautiful dagger-wielding sneak thief; varieties of idiotic and obnoxious lords and merchants and plotters; mysterious and esoteric priest-types). Annoyingly obvious plot-point progression, completely vague long-term direction. Plus all the women who matter are beautiful (that's how you can tell they matter?) and not a single character surprised me by being anything other than what they obviously were. Not that any one character could really achieve any depth when it's a fast-moving buffet of character viewpoints, meaning no one has any meaningful motivation except the big powers (who are all hateful) and I didn't care two straws about anyone. Abandoned at page 196. I probably wouldn't have made it that far, but it was a weekend away and I didn't bring anything else to read. As it was, I still got to the point where I just couldn't handle any more regardless. no reviews | add a review
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"Thren Felhorn is the greatest assassin of his time. All the thieves' guilds of the city are under his unflinching control. If he has his way, death will soon spill out from the shadows and into the streets. Aaron is Thren's son, trained to be heir to his father's criminal empire. He's cold, ruthless--everything an assassin should be. But when Aaron risks his life to protect a priest's daughter from his own guild, he glimpses a world beyond piston, daggers, and the iron rule of his father"--Page 4 of cover. No library descriptions found.
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