[Aztiel]

Sort of hate to resurrect such an old thread (Rise from your grave!), but I am just now reading The Last Wish, and am finding it truly fantastic. The format of short stories is wonderful, and I am really appreciating all of the forced decisions. The main character has to make choices, and there is never any clear right or wrong - that's the way books should be, fantasy or not. Characters making decisions, and dealing with the consequences.

[Abyss]

Has anyone read the sequel "BLOOD OF ELVES" yet? If so, non-spoileriffic recommendation/warnings?

- Abyss, curious.

[Chance]

Yepp...

Done it...

It probably is a pretty decent book that suffers badly from some idiot deciding to not publish the book/short story collection between The Last Wish and Blood of Elves.

I found it really irritating and little like The Last Wish, pretty much like reading book three without reading book two which isn't a first but always a bad idea.

Other possible warnings would be its much more like a traditional fantasy story with the arc starting in blood of elves but revealing very little of where it is going.

Btw there was some discussion about it around december-januari...

/Chance...still going to read the next one so it wasn't all bad...

[Abyss]

Yeah, barring an airport grab, i think i may wait until the english versions catch up with the originals. I really enjoyed the first one.


- Abyss, refuses to reward laziness...

[Obdigore]

Picked up and read Blood of Elves because I, too, enjoyed The Last Wish.

I checked about 8 times throughout the book to verify this was supposed to be the second, and not a later book, as it seemed that I was missing a lot. Don't get me wrong, it is a good book, but the passing references to important previous events is worse this time around. It kind of broke the continuity of the story for me.

[Werthead]

Captain Oblivious, on Jul 15 2009, 03:13 PM, said:

Picked up and read Blood of Elves because I, too, enjoyed The Last Wish.

I checked about 8 times throughout the book to verify this was supposed to be the second, and not a later book, as it seemed that I was missing a lot. Don't get me wrong, it is a good book, but the passing references to important previous events is worse this time around. It kind of broke the continuity of the story for me.

It is the third book (but the first book in the five-volume novel series). The second, Sword of Destiny, has not been translated into English. As far as I can gather it's some copyright thing as one of the stories in it was translated by itself into English years ago and they can't do that book until the copyright on the other thing expires or something. Anyway, legalese is involved and until it's sorted we won't see the book out over here.