Sara's reading log

I am a book hoarder and reader. My main genre is SF, but I also love magic realism, fantasy and general fiction. Favorite authors are Iain M. Banks, Ursula K. LeGuin, Haruki Murakami, José Saramago, Isaac Asimov, Ben Aaronovitch and more. My rating system is based on five stars. I rate books based on my expectations and what a books aims to be. This means that the brilliant 'Fahrenheit 451' gets five stars because I thought it would be good, people said it was good, and it was good, but 'A Closed and Common Orbit' also gets five stars because in its series, in its style, I really enjoyed it and was not disappointed.

De weg naar Amber by Roger Zelazny

  • Started on: 2013-10-20
  • Finished on: 2013-10-20
  • Read in: Dutch
  • Rating: ***–
  • Genre(s): Fantasy

This is the second book in the Amber chronicles, with Corwin’s continuing fight against Eric and the siblings that stand with him. Two main subjects in this book are Corwin’s quest to get firearms to Amber (regular Earth firearms don’t work in Amber, but he’s found a substance that does fire in one of the Shadows) and the discovery of a great black road that runs through Amber and the Shadows that seems to enable evil creatures to enter the land, and that can capture ‘normal’ humans. He also meets a companion, Ganelon who accompanies him on his journeys.
This book is a nice continuation of the first book, and it really reads like it. It continues on right after the earlier book, feeling more like part two in one big book than a separate story on its own. Three out of five stars.

  • Started on: 2013-10-20
  • Finished on: 2013-10-20
  • Read in: Dutch
  • Rating: ***–
  • Genre(s): Fantasy

This is the second book in the Amber chronicles, with Corwin’s continuing fight against Eric and the siblings that stand with him. Two main subjects in this book are Corwin’s quest to get firearms to Amber (regular Earth firearms don’t work in Amber, but he’s found a substance that does fire in one of the Shadows) and the discovery of a great black road that runs through Amber and the Shadows that seems to enable evil creatures to enter the land, and that can capture ‘normal’ humans. He also meets a companion, Ganelon who accompanies him on his journeys.
This book is a nice continuation of the first book, and it really reads like it. It continues on right after the earlier book, feeling more like part two in one big book than a separate story on its own. Three out of five stars.