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Book Reviews of The Sword of the Lady (Sunrise Lands, Bk 3) (Emberverse, Bk 6)

The Sword of the Lady (Sunrise Lands, Bk 3) (Emberverse, Bk 6)
The Sword of the Lady - Sunrise Lands, Bk 3 - Emberverse, Bk 6
Author: S. M. Stirling
ISBN-13: 9780451462909
ISBN-10: 0451462904
Publication Date: 8/25/2009
Pages: 496
Rating:
  • Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
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4.2 stars, based on 35 ratings
Publisher: Roc Hardcover
Book Type: Hardcover
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cyndij avatar reviewed The Sword of the Lady (Sunrise Lands, Bk 3) (Emberverse, Bk 6) on + 1032 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
Okay, I'm done with this series. I really liked Dies the Fire, tho I was a bit less thrilled with the next two in that set. Stirling writes good characters and knows how to keep the action flowing. But he also writes long-winded descriptions that get a bit tedious the tenth time you've read the same thing. I've slogged my way through endless descriptions of armor, cavalry, Wiccan religious practice, and how to string a longbow.
Anyway I started The Sunrise Lands wanting to know what happens to Rudi (Artos) and the prophecy that he'd be king. Stirling sets up that book with a quest for Rudi, to get a magical sword from Nantucket. Cool, right? We get to see what happened to the rest of the country. But then it all comes to a great, word-filled, grinding slowness. In The Scourge of God he takes 600 pages just to get them to Iowa. Fight, recover, eat, make some friends, travel, fight, eat, make some friends and on and on and on. This book, Sword of the Lady, is exactly the same. Stirling could have cut out 500 pages or more and you'd never notice.
Rudi does FINALLY get his sword - in the last 10 pages - but now he's got to get back cross country and fight the CUT army. I was so bored at the end I sought out reviews of the next couple in the series, to see if it was just me who was tired of the whole thing. And there are lots of folks with the same opinion. So I'm done.
reviewed The Sword of the Lady (Sunrise Lands, Bk 3) (Emberverse, Bk 6) on + 10 more book reviews
A wonderful continuation of Stirling Change series. The book is over 600 pages. I read it in 5 days.
alleyoop0808 avatar reviewed The Sword of the Lady (Sunrise Lands, Bk 3) (Emberverse, Bk 6) on + 18 more book reviews
I agree. The series is pretty redundant. It can not be read as a seperate book. You almost have to read them in sequence in order to know whats goingon. With rhat said, quit explaining the same stuff. Get a new chapter started and go from there. First two chapters give description and explanations. We can skip them and get to the meat.