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Loading... Tower Lord (2014)by Anthony Ryan
   None. None No current Talk conversations about this book. 1   YouKneeK | Jul 25, 2018 |  Tower Lord by Anthony Ryan is a strong follow up to his debut novel Blood Song. He changes things up in this edition as it is written in a multi POV style but this to me was very well done and did not detract from the story being told. You will find the continuing stories of both Vaelin al Sorna, Frentis and Lyrna (who was only a minor character) from Blood Song along with new character Reva in rotating chapters as they each follow their paths. Each section of the book also starts with an extended journal entry from Verniers. The book comes with lots of action, good character studies and a great edge of your seat ending that will have you eagerly awaiting the release of the next book in the series. 5 stars for a truly enjoyable read. You will want to read this one!!! (  ) ConalO | Apr 23, 2018 | So, I did not like this one as well as the first book. I felt like there was a lot of unexplained in portions, nothing that was necessarily important to the plot, and I guess that it was realistic, in that Vaelin did not know the answers either, but it bugged me for some reason. And mostly there were so many different perspectives. I realize that epic fantasy is "epic" because it is expansive and encompasses many realms and people, but I really liked the focus of the first book better. The language was much coarser, to the point I found it distracting. I don't think everything should be sanitized or anything like that, but this got annoying. Trigger warnings: I would also warn that there is constant and pervasive reference to sexual violence  ) dbhart42 | Dec 21, 2017 | The first book of the Raven Song trilogy, I compared Anthony Ryan's book to works by Patrick Rothfuss and Sabaa Tahir. This time around the Rothfussian and Tahirian elements are still there in book two, but have somewhat moved into the background. They have been replaced by similarities to the writing of RobertJordan in his "Wheel of Time" series nad to the writing of George R. R. Martin in his "Song of Ice and Fire" series. Witout spoiling anything, I will say that Jordanesque stylistic choices were made and Martinesque thematic choices were made. I had issues with this book that I didn't in the first, namely it wasn't always clear how much time was transpiring or at what rate it was transpiring. There are a lot of moving parts in this story and you need to know what is happening when for it all to make sense. It mostly works. (  ) Eric.Cone | Sep 28, 2017 | Superb story, the character building grows considerably with the second book in the series, it has everything a good book needs. ( ) Deryk_Allan | Dec 23, 2016 | no reviews | add a review
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Unlike the first book, which was told primarily from the point of view of a single character, this book is split up into four main POV’s, along with a framing story in a similar format as the first book. Three of those characters were in the first book (
Despite the occasional slower spots, I’m still enjoying the story. This book left more threads hanging at the end than the first book did, and I look forward to finding out what happens in the final book. (