White Crow review
Mar. 25th, 2012 01:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearWhite Crow by Mary Gentle gathers together all the White Crow stories into quite a hefty book. I read the first three.
They're quite odd, with very little in the way of explanation of anything. The characters have esoteric skills and knowledge, and there is obviously a deeply ingrained magic system, but nothing is ever spelled out clearly. You just have to tag along for the ride and see what happens - and even by the end of the story, it's often still not clear what's going on.
A bit too vague for my tastes, though I liked the dynamic between the two main characters, but not enough to forge my way through several hundred more pages.
They're quite odd, with very little in the way of explanation of anything. The characters have esoteric skills and knowledge, and there is obviously a deeply ingrained magic system, but nothing is ever spelled out clearly. You just have to tag along for the ride and see what happens - and even by the end of the story, it's often still not clear what's going on.
A bit too vague for my tastes, though I liked the dynamic between the two main characters, but not enough to forge my way through several hundred more pages.
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Date: 2012-03-25 06:48 pm (UTC)