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May. 4th, 2012 04:40 pmBeen out-of-sorts for days. It's beginning to show, I fear.
Anyway I just received and read Saladin Ahmed's first novel "Throne of the Crescent Moon"
Not too bad, really. Promising even. Perhaps not quite as much fun as Jon Courteney Grimwood's "Arabesk" trilogy, which is set in an alternate 21st century, rather than a mediæval quasi-Caliphate, but pretty good nevertheless. And, unlike Grimwood, Ahmed doesn't faff about with his timeline and gives his reader a much more straightforward narrative to chew on.
7.5/10, I reckon.
Still awaiting Iain M Banks' new "Culture" novel, "The Hydrogen Sonata" which is due in October, I believe.
Anyway I just received and read Saladin Ahmed's first novel "Throne of the Crescent Moon"
Not too bad, really. Promising even. Perhaps not quite as much fun as Jon Courteney Grimwood's "Arabesk" trilogy, which is set in an alternate 21st century, rather than a mediæval quasi-Caliphate, but pretty good nevertheless. And, unlike Grimwood, Ahmed doesn't faff about with his timeline and gives his reader a much more straightforward narrative to chew on.
7.5/10, I reckon.
Still awaiting Iain M Banks' new "Culture" novel, "The Hydrogen Sonata" which is due in October, I believe.
