Blood of Amber: The Chronicles of Amber Book 7
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When last we saw Merlin, Luke had imprisoned him in the blue crystal cave. After more than a month of durance Merlin manages an escape. But he’s not content with just gaining his freedom. Merlin journeys to the Keep of Four Worlds and does battle with the upstart wizard Mask. As the duel ends merlin kidnaps the paralyzed Jasra (Luke’s Mother) to give him leverage over Luke. Merlin’s adventures only get stranger from there.
Roger Zelazny
Roger Zelazny burst onto the SF scene in the early 1960s with a series of dazzling and groundbreaking short stories. He is the winner of six Hugo Awards, including for the novels This Immortal and the classic Lord of Light; he is also the author of the enormously popular Amber series, starting with Nine Princes in Amber. In addition to his Hugos, he went on to win three Nebula Awards over the course of a long and distinguished career. He died on June 14, 1995.
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Reviews for Blood of Amber
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5One thing I noticed early on in the series that I've failed to mention is that when Zelazny moves his character through shadow it reads almost like poetry, not the forced trying to be like Tolkien poetry that once fantasy writer seemed to have to insert to have a "proper" fantasy. The descriptions aren't formatted like poetry it just sounds like a very poetic movement.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Well - still definitely a piece of a series. The infodump at the beginning was rather annoying - too much info if you just read the previous book, and I suspect not enough if you hadn't. And at the end...whoopee, Merle's imprisoned again. Too similar to Trumps of Doom's ending for me. There's a lot of info added in the middle of the book, and quite a lot of action at various points. But overall, it feels a bit like a treadmill - or a Red Queen's Race; all that to end up in pretty much the same place he began.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Things are getting quite interesting for Merlin son of Corwin. He's got a shapeshifting protector following him around keeping an eye on him. He needs the protection, though, because he's got friends like Luke - who either wants to kill him, or not. Then there's Luke's mother, who's already tried to kill him five or six times. Then there's his half-brother Jurt from the realm of Chaos who seems to want to mesh the Chaos succession ritual with a personal vendetta. Of course, there's always his sentient computer program, Ghostwheel, who's trying to figure out what he his while everyone else is trying to figure out how to use him to achieve even greater power and influence. Then there's this Mask fellow who appears to want to kill both Luke and Luke's mother (Jasra) AND Merlin. Oh, and there's also the usual intrigues of the Court of Amber. And that's chapter one.The action is fast and furious. The plots are twisty and confusing. The fact that psychedelic drugs and shapeshifting seems about as common as the common cold make keeping track of the various characters a challenge. Motives are of the utmost importance to Merlin, but keeping track of changing alliances and the threads of motivations is difficult in the extreme. On the plus side, it's a quick read, very entertaining and things move quickly, so one's interest is fully engaged.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5iets beter dan het vorige deel.