![]() In many ways, Ryan writes in much the same way as Steven Erikson, leaving no character untouched by war and loss, and a seemingly joyous adherence to one of the prime lessons of fiction writing, “kill your darlings”. Queen of Fire by Anthony Ryan, completes one of the better fantasy trilogies you’ll encounter. However, from time to time, it was clear the author had written “a revelation”, but what it was or how it had come about was a complete mystery to me, based as it was on my having to remember three pieces of information from five separate books and put them all together seven books later. This was not a complaint that affected my rating of a book, and for the most part had very little impact on my enjoyment of the book. ![]() One of the only issues I ever had with Steven Erikson’s Malazan Book of the Fallen was the required memory and knowledge a reader was supposed to bring into every book. ![]()
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