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Dang David, you are a voracious reader!
"She intentionally sets the entire book on fire over the course of a single conversation. It’s an amazing scene." yeah i LOVED leea, this scene had me (figuratively, i THINK) hooting & hollering. it was so good
Luana I just couldn’t put this one down! it might be my favorite read this year
Aja, hooting and hollering is exactly how I felt reading that scene!
An excellent review of an excellent book, David.
Yeah, good review David! Definitely one of the best ever written.
I wonder if this book introduces the concept of the gods of various mythologies co-existing in the same reality, like different human tribes. It's a familiar idea now thanks to Marvel comics, Dungeons and Dragons, and undoubtedly other sources, but Anderson was the first to conceive of it, that I know of.
David wrote: "Luana I just couldn’t put this one down! it might be my favorite read this year"
i personally have been basing my ratings & thoughts on books this year by judging them in comparison to how much i enjoyed this book lol. i read it early in the year, it was my first 5 star read of 2025, and every book since then i've finished it & been like "did i enjoy it as much as the broken sword? no? okay, 4 stars then"
I read it close on 40 years ago and I think it's been one of my yardsticks for every fantasy novel I've subsequently read:)
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Dang David, you are a voracious reader!
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"She intentionally sets the entire book on fire over the course of a single conversation. It’s an amazing scene." yeah i LOVED leea, this scene had me (figuratively, i THINK) hooting & hollering. it was so good
Luana I just couldn’t put this one down! it might be my favorite read this year
Aja, hooting and hollering is exactly how I felt reading that scene!
An excellent review of an excellent book, David.
Yeah, good review David! Definitely one of the best ever written.
I wonder if this book introduces the concept of the gods of various mythologies co-existing in the same reality, like different human tribes. It's a familiar idea now thanks to Marvel comics, Dungeons and Dragons, and undoubtedly other sources, but Anderson was the first to conceive of it, that I know of.
David wrote: "Luana I just couldn’t put this one down! it might be my favorite read this year"i personally have been basing my ratings & thoughts on books this year by judging them in comparison to how much i enjoyed this book lol. i read it early in the year, it was my first 5 star read of 2025, and every book since then i've finished it & been like "did i enjoy it as much as the broken sword? no? okay, 4 stars then"
I read it close on 40 years ago and I think it's been one of my yardsticks for every fantasy novel I've subsequently read:)
