Tower Lord (A Raven's Shadow Novel), by Anthony Ryan
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Tower Lord (A Raven's Shadow Novel), by Anthony Ryan
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New York Times bestselling author Anthony Ryan returns to the “wonderful universe” (Fantasy Book Critic) of Blood Song, as Vaelin Al Sorna continues on his inevitable road to destiny…King Janus’s vision of a Unified Realm has failed, drowned in the blood of brave men fighting for a cause that was forged from a lie. Sick at heart, Vaelin Al Sorna, warrior of the Sixth Order, returns home, determined to kill no more, seeking peace far from the intrigues of a troubled Realm.But those gifted with the blood-song are not destined to live quiet lives. Vaelin finds himself a target, both for those seeking revenge and those who know about his gift. And as a great threat once again moves against the Realm, Vaelin realizes that when faced with annihilation, even the most reluctant hand must eventually draw a sword.
Tower Lord (A Raven's Shadow Novel), by Anthony Ryan- Amazon Sales Rank: #21147 in Books
- Brand: Ryan, Anthony
- Published on: 2015-06-02
- Released on: 2015-06-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.98" h x 1.25" w x 5.91" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 624 pages
Review “Ryan shines brighter in his sophomore effort by giving us many brilliant characters…Easily the best heroic epic fantasy of 2014…Anthony Ryan is David Gemmell’s natural successor and epic fantasy’s best British talent.”—Fantasy Book Critic“[Tower Lord] begins to realize the imagination and coherency of Tolkien, while remaining true to the heart and soul of the author. The Raven’s Shadow series is one of the best new series out there, challenging all the existing big-names to sit up and take notice, or be left behind.”—Fantasy Book Review“[Ryan has] proven himself as an author who can write a very diverse and convincing cast of characters…A wonderful follow-up.”—The Bibliosanctum“[L]eaves you both satisfied and on the edge of your seat for what happens next. Loved it.”—Tenacious Reader“The series shaping up to become something established for the fantasy genre that will be recommended for years to come. Anthony Ryan has shown he’s able to repeat with Tower Lord what he started with Blood Song.”—Indie-Fantasy
About the Author Anthony Ryan is the author of the Raven’s Shadow novels, including Blood Song, Tower Lord, and Queen of Fire. He lives in London, where he is at work on his next book.
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388 of 459 people found the following review helpful. Ryan's Dance With Dragons, Or Vaelin Al Boring By Big Illy Style I have a lot of the same criticisms, and share the same bafflement as just about every other reader. The practically unanimous consensus is that this book is NOWHERE near as good as the first. I thought Blood Song was a cut above story, and it really ended strong with great promise for more story to come. But to say Tower Lord is not as good as Blood Song is to miss the real story here.Tower Lord is such a steep fall as to simply astonish you that it's from the same writer. This was not a story that had to be forced; Ryan ended BS with a lot of world to explore and seemed to have a clear handle on the pieces moving beyond the reader's vision. Yet, Tower Lord almost entirely avoids these pieces, and if anything, reveals less about the real threat to this world, the history, or the magical elements than what was explored in Blood Song. Things that don't get satisfactory treatment: the Seventh Order, the story of the One Who Waits, the Ally (same as One Who Waits?), the Ally's henchmen (3 of them?), the story of Vaelin's parents and what they were really up to with Vaelin being sent to the Sixth Order, what the Alpiran Empire did with Vaelin for five years, Vaelin's trial there (OK, pretty much anything with Vaelin), the deal with Frentis and his scars, etc. It's all very cursory, but that's what we all came here to read about. Not the endless marching through the forests.If Ryan wanted to write the next Game of Thrones, he has succeeded only in writing a pale imitation to Dance With Dragons. This entire book is about characters traveling from one place to another, just like Tyrion, Brienne, Jaimie and seemingly everybody else in ADWD. The four characters in this book are eternally on the move with seemingly no change or consequence. This is extremely boring, and the endless battles and fights the characters get into do not liven things up--they all just blend together.I was initially interested in the different character viewpoints, but that quickly soured. It's not just that the character arcs are predictable (utterly so!), but that every single character speaks with the SAME VOICE. Try reading Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time. Say what you will about it's enormous length and numerous characters--each POV features a unique perspective and voice easily identifiable to that character. This is true of Jordan's characters across the sexes. Mat's chapters have an enormously different feel from Perrin's chapters, and the same for Nynaeve versus Elayne, and on and on. The same is true of many great authors.Not so here, and this is really shocking. Vaelin, Lyrna, Frentis, and Reva's chapters all feel as if they are from the same POV with only exceedingly minor differences. Do you ever get tired of the reluctant hero cliché that plagues 99% of modern story and film? Well, you'll get your fill here because every single character is that way. All four are amazing warriors, leaders, and brilliant tacticians of course (within the confines of the story--you won't actually feel that way), and all four feel endlessly guilty about causing death and violence, even when they are only involved in defending themselves and others. I am so sick of the cliché of good people blaming themselves for the actions of evil ones, like the hero who blames himself because his implacably evil foe harms an innocent to get at the hero. This sort of thing happens all the time in this book, and everyone of these damn characters always reacts with same variation of "That guy's terrible cruelty is my fault because I'm the one he wants." In real life, when somebody does something mean, no matter how petty, most people don't sit around brooding and saying, "Y'know, really I've got some blame here for that guy cutting me off in traffic. Why, if only I'd left the house half an hour earlier, I wouldn't have been here for this guy to swoop in front of me, so that's on me." What the hell? This sort of writing is not only terrible on its face, it's been done to death for decades now. See Harry Potter. Hell, see the Wheel of Time. In this book (and unlike Blood Song), the unwarranted navel-gazing is constant with every character. Couldn't there be a single one who generally reacts to battle with the attitude that they did what they had to do? There should be some tall in the saddle John Waynes to counter balance the hand-wringing, head-hanging Jake Gyllenhalls in this book.Like I said, all the characters feel the same. Lyrna and Reva don't "feel" like female characters. If Ryan hadn't thrown in a weird May-December lesbian romance with Reva, I probably would have forgotten the character was a girl. The lesbian angle also feels forced and distracting, as if Ryan was trying to hit all the bases. And of course, the romance is handled in a clichéd manner. Reva is religious and her feelings are a source of shame and torment to her (this is more declared than really felt in the writing), and of course the religious figures in the book all use it to treat her as scum. The modern parallels are too clumsily inserted, and I daresay not accurate. But whatever your feelings on the culture war angle, it's not original, and therefore it's not very interesting. It was cliché 15 years ago when American Beauty rode the tormented self-hating gay storyline to the Academy Awards red carpet. Yet here we are, still being fed the same bland pudding for the umpteenth time. It lost its flavor a long time ago.Now let's get to the heart of problem: Vaelin Al Sorna. Our hero, the reason everyone is picking up this book in the first place. It's an exaggeration to say he's barely in this book. Sure, there's a character named Vaelin who appears in a few (very few) chapters, but I'm starting to wonder if he wasn't possessed by the One Who Waits off-screen because he's NOTHING at all like the character from the first book. Here, he's a haunted, passive, burnt out shell. Think Steven Seagal in On Deadly Ground versus Seagal in Hard to Kill. At the end of Blood Song, he was a renewed man burning with purpose. That purpose was to find Sherin, rescue Frentis, and figure out how to stop the One Who Waits. Clear. Simple. In Tower Lord, Vaelin has almost no thought of Sherin, and immediately abandons his mission to rescue Frentis at the request of the King. This is completely out of character for a man who finished the first book battle tested and ready to reclaim his own destiny. He was unshackled and ready to rumble. Forging your own path was a big theme of Blood Song, and it was the great conflict in his character that serving the King led him to do things he was personally opposed to, and the reader was there to see if Vaelin could reconcile the various conflicts of king, religion, morality, and personal desire.That's not here, folks. Instead, we keep waiting for the characters to get to Alltor, and then Vaelin does something extraordinarily stupid as a military commander (but it works out no problem at all because FANTASY HERO), and there's a weirdly abrupt ending. Oh, and the one scene that promised to be interesting and connected to Blood Song--Lyrna's meeting with the Mahlessa--was instead cryptic and confusing.Let's sum it up: boring plot, bland same-same characters, clumsy modern culture war crap, complete indifference to the Blood Song deep storyline, older than the pyramids guilty battle weary hero conscience crap, and a neutered unrecognizable Vaelin Al Sorna.What the hell happened?
38 of 42 people found the following review helpful. :( :( :( :( :( By Hannah Oh, Anthony.The first book was really pretty good. I would've given it 4 stars. A few run-on sentences jumped out here and there. But overall, the characters were engaging, the story was interesting, the fantasy was fun. And there was a cool twist at the end.Now this. The writing is bad. SO BAD. So, so bad you guys. Anthony likes commas instead of periods. Anthony likes WORDS, SO MANY WORDS in every sentence. If I were to write this review as me, I would say: the book was bad. If I were to write this review as Anthony, I would say: "Reading this book brought a great level of destruction to my mood, greater than ever previously witnessed, as I turned the last page, I began to cry, as there could be no satisfactory conclusion found anywhere in sight, and the realization dawned upon me, like a dark storm cloud, that I had forced myself to read the whole thing for naught, whilst my heart longed for something so much better."I might read book 3, but only if Anthony gets a new editor. I miss the Vaelin that had a personality.
247 of 296 people found the following review helpful. That I am posting at all is because oh how sorely disappointed I am By A. M. A. I don't want to belabor the negative reviews and pile on this book. That I am posting at all is because oh how sorely disappointed I am. There was one review I read that struck to the heart of what is wrong with this book. If you bought this book expecting Blood Song #2 as many of us did and will continue to do so... Well that's not what you're getting. Blood Song was the haunting riveting coming of age of Vaelin Al Sorna. This book.. It's the story of Lyrna, Frentis, and Reva guest starring some guy named Vaelin. But don't be mistaken. It's not the same Vaelin from Book 1. This guy is some pacifist who spends the paltry pages devoted to him riding to and fro on a horse. Tower Lord? The name of the book is a travesty. Vaelin spent maybe 2 days as Tower Lord and made no meaningful contribution to being a Tower Lord except to leave the place soon after arriving. Blood Song #2? No that doesn't exist either as you have known it. It's now some Broadway tune you have to sing. Beware. If you do it too long, you die from a nosebleed. So don't expect it to be used in any meaningful way.If you don't want to read about this Vaelin Al Boring, then you won't have to. The majority of the book is devoted to Superwoman Reva. Who's that? Some character we don't know or care about who is forced upon us as the heroine of Tower Lord. The 6th Order trains boys over 20 years to become amazing warriors. Who needs that? 2 weeks with Vaelin and no more than 5 sparring matches and you've got yourselves the world's best swordswoman and master of the bow. So now we can follow her on her adventures tackling her daddy issues and becoming the hero of LGBT rights. If that's not to your liking you can read about Frentis and his relationship issues. Or maybe Lyrna. The world's smartest woman with a pet shark.How did we go from seeing Vaelin grow and develop his skills over time in Book 1 to this uninspiried insipid multiple POV mess of Book 2 featuring characters that break every notion of character development that happened in the first book? Overnight heroes with amazing magically developed skills and closet personal issues they have to deal with. It seems like Editorial intrusion in a big negative way. I can see some editor changing Anthony Ryan from a brilliant new on the scene writer, to GRRM lite. "Lets change to POV like Martin" "Let's add some strong female perspectives" "Best make her lesbian. Thats a niche we can target" "This mysterious danger from Beyond? Too confusing. Doesnt work the focus groups. Let's make it Evil Empire with generic slave soldiers"I will be buying Book 3 when it comes out. But only because of the brilliance of Book 1. Please go back to your original story telling Anthony Ryan. And his editors.. Stay out his way. We don't want to read a book by GRRM or Robert Jordan lite. We want to discover more about the world and the character that we were introduced to in Book 1. What was promised in the titles. The Blood Song of Book 1 and the Tower Lord of Book 2. This book featured neither.
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