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The Legacy of Skur Volume One by L.F. Falconer

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


This is an incredible book. It teases you away from reality and drops you firmly in a new land, with all its beauty and ugliness laid bare before you. It’s an art, to steal the reader’s attention without them even noticing it. Looking down my Kindle, Abercrombie has it, Zelazny certainly possesses it, I grew up in Stephen Donaldson’s mind, and now Falconer has joined that band of literary thieves.
I was drawn in from the first words that Fane muttered from the pages. Fith the wizard, Jink the friend and Kael the older brother all coming alive in fast sequence. Their dialogue told me more about them than a description ever could, easy, somehow placing them straight into the scene and story. Real dialogue, not forced or stilted, dialogue that grows the setting rather than stilts the tale. Even in fantasy, problems, jealousy, and family wranglings all occur and these help to ground you and ready you for the fantastic journey ahead.
The Legacy Of Skur is a book I would wholeheartedly recommend, as I would any book by this author.




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