5/29/2023 0 Comments The Anathema by Zachary Rawlins![]() In short (spoilers), there is a world were magic is possible. The pacing is pretty good, keeping the reader interested in trying to figure out how the world works and what's going on with it, without ever revealing too much at a time. ![]() The world that's created a mix of the horrible unknown (in an almost Lovecraftian sense), urban street magic (along the lines of Jim Butcher), and futuristic combat and tech (along the lines of Neal Asher). That said, the world building is truly stupendous. Rawlins should hire an editors for the second book. Usually it's possible to tell what the author intended, at least to some extent, but it's quite jarring. The number of sentences per chapter that simply had a missing subject, object, or verb (not in the sense that the sentence was poorly written, but in the sense that it's quite obvious a word was accidentally left out) is truly stupendous. Though they act as windows into other characters that are much more sympathetic and relatable.įurther, while the writing is pretty good, the editing and proof reading is truly horrible. This makes them quite hard for the reader to relate to or care about. They don't have much of a past, they don't have much in the way of goals and agency, and they aren't fully fledged enough to have much in the way of human interactions. ![]() ![]() I'm not entirely sure what to make of that. ![]()
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