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So dark and imaginative and addictive; I love Neil Gaiman's turn of phrase! This is the first thing of his I've read but I can see that I'll be making my way through his entire collection.

I was about to give up on this book, but wondered if I was missing out on something. It got rave reviews from the bookstore staff, and I see how highly rated it is here. It's quite unlike other fantasy I have read, and this is a positive thing, not a negative.

I like Temrai and Bardas, and you really don't get a sense of the potential of this rivalry until very late in the book.Hooked now!

I was about to give up on this book, but wondered if I was missing out on something. It got rave reviews from the bookstore staff, and I see how highly rated it is here. It's quite unlike other fantasy I have read, and this is a positive thing, not a negative.

I like Temrai and Bardas, and you really don't get a sense of the potential of this rivalry until very late in the book. I'm glad I've hung in, hooked now!

While it's a bit of a nice departure from other fantasy I've read, I'm finding the two 'protagonists' to be rather less than charismatic. They don't seem that well fleshed out, and I find the supporting characters to be either irritating, vanilla or one-dimensional.

It's not terrible, but it is not gripping me like I'd hoped it would, based upon others' reviews.

"If there's one thing I despise almost as much as amateurs, it's melodrama."

"Every adventurer in the Underdark eventually comes across the aberrant horrors lurking in its darkest corners."

Oh yes. Yes, they do...

"Every adventurer in the Underdark eventually comes across the aberrant horrors lurking in its darkest corners."

Oh yes. Yes, they do...