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Author Ann Agurirre read Pauline Alama’s The Eye of Night earlier this year and loved the book so much she wanted to share the experience. She held a giveaway on her blog, offering five commentators a copy of the book. I was lucky enough to be one of the winners and I have recently finished it. While I don’t think I loved it quite as much as Ann did, I thought this was an excellent fantasy that I would never have read without her giveaway, so I’m very grateful to her.Seven years ago, Jereth join...
A favorite re-read of mine for when fantasy was written to be epic instead of what passes for fantasy today: a teenage princess in love who saves the world. Jereth still searches for what will give meaning to his life. His religious order couldn't help him overcome the death of his family and now he is on the road, a starving pilgrim. He stumbles upon Hwyn who is not all that she seems. Crippled and consumed with a mission, Hwyn is determined to travel north, into the area of the world that is b...
Entertaining but a little predictable.
This is another book that I can no longer remember all the details. Now that I'm listing the books I've read online I have only my card file to refer to when attempting to comment on a book I read in the past.The Eye of Night was a wonderful book that my file lists as excellent. It was a wonderful fantasy book of heroes and evil: I loved it.
This is the most underrated / unknown fantasy novel of the decade. It is, quite simply, astonishingly beautiful. When was the last time I read an epic fantasy that felt truly epic? When was the last time a book like that reached into my chest, grabbed hold of my heart, and squeezed until I laughed, smiled, wept, and utterly forgot the world? I cannot recall, to be honest.Rarely, after I read something, I’m left just aching. This is one of those books. I have to write about it; I have to try to a...
A priesthood drop-out, a scarred seer and a beautiful imbecile quest to ensure the hatching of the Eye of Night, even though by doing so they may bring about the destruction of the world.
I will be reading the Kindle version of this book.
Lovely story with the hardships of being on the road woven into it. Some parts could be more concise. It did touch me though, and that's all I require from a book.
One of my biggest problems in writing reviews is I sometimes have trouble putting my feelings into words. I like to sit and think on books, and then think some more, until it has been months and then I have nothing to say about them. And while I love reviews that go in depth into the plot and the metaphors and all the like, I did too much of that in school and I don’t want to do that with books I read for my own enjoyment. Just actually trying and kind of failing to figure out said feelings. I l...
DNFing this. I do want to say, this is not a bad book by any objective metric. It just isn't for me, at least at the moment.
This is going to rate very highly in my annual Year's Best list. Bookbub's ad for it quoted Booklist as recommending it for fans of George R. R. Martin and of Lois McMaster Bujold's The Curse of Chalion, so I wasn't sure whether I would like it or not; I strongly dislike Martin but love the Chalion novels deeply. Fortunately, it turned out to be more like the latter than the former. I'm marking it as well-edited, with an asterisk: the ebook has apparently been scanned from a print book, and ther...
"The Eye of Night" is written similarly to older fantasy stories, and the verbosity is where it sometimes suffers. There were several times when I skim read or glanced over large paragraphs of descriptions or lore without really losing anything in the story. The characters are what invested me, and kept me reading through the slower moving parts of the story. Despite the areas that I didn't really enjoy as much, overall I really liked this book. Hwyn, Jereth, and Trenara are really interesting c...
What I love about this book is the uncertainty it conveys. It's not unusual, in well-written high fantasy, to wonder whether the heroes will succeed in their quest, or whether they will survive even if they succeed. But in the Eye of Night, Pauline Alama takes it a step further and writes a very compelling tale of unlikely heroes on a quest where they don't even know why they're doing what they are doing, or whether they will destroy the world they are trying to save. And yet, you're with them,
One of the things that struck me about this book was the way it acknowledges the difficulty of questing. In most other stories, the heroes simply get up and walk across the continent. Alama's characters don't just simply load up their packs with food and weapons and start tromping. In each city they come to, they have to figure out how they're going to get the money to get the supplies to keep going. They're very much on their own, without the support of nobility and easy cash.The cosmology was
It starts with a prophet, a fool and a priest. While you might think that is the start of a joke, it isn't. I first heard about this book from author Ann Aguirre and she was right on the money with her high praise. Pauline Alama has created a stand alone epic fantasy that is quite enjoyable. The Troubles have come and people are fleeing the North. All except Jereth, Hwynn, and Lady Trenara. One is a prophet, one a fool and one a former priest. These three have in their possession a mysterious or...
lovely elegiac poetry This story bears much more truth than the usual weight of fantasy, it is more a saga or a myth retold than any product of a writer’s mind. It’s history both lovely and sorrowful, like the best of Guy Gavriel Kay’s writing, full of dreams and portents too bright and dark for us to easily bear. Such rare and lovely truth!
I found this book in a used book store and as soon as I finished it it went straight back. The plot was fairly original, but the characters were unmemorable and the writing style long-winded and boring. The climax was anti-climactic and the end of the book was just drawn out and unnecessary. It wasn't the worst fantasy I've ever read, but it was close.
Onvan : The Eye of Night - Nevisande : Pauline J. Alama - ISBN : 553584634 - ISBN13 : 9780553584639 - Dar 464 Safhe - Saal e Chap : 2002
I love romances where the characters are emotionally crippled or physically disfigured (Ya, call me a romantic), and this story had both.
This book has everything I love in a good story: characters that truly suffer, fantasy setting with just enough Medieval influences to seem like it was a part of history, magic, gods, an epic quest.One thing I love about the book is that there are four main deities, all based on the seasons and on the Medieval Wheel of Fortune. This is nothing like the game show. The Wheel of Fortune was the wheel of your life, the seemingly random ups and downs - the belief that good things come to those who de...