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diff --git a/content/reviews/books/guns-of-avalon-1971.md b/content/reviews/books/guns-of-avalon-1971.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..43ecbed --- /dev/null +++ b/content/reviews/books/guns-of-avalon-1971.md @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ ++++ +title = "Guns of Avalon (Roger Zelazny, 1972)" +author = ["Michał Sapka"] +date = 2024-08-31T22:25:00+02:00 +categories = ["reviews"] +draft = false +weight = 2003 +reviewSection = ["Books"] +abstract = "My short review" +rating = 4 +image = "reviews/covers/guns-of-avalon.jpg" +related = ["Chronices of Amber: Corwin cycle"] +relatedName = "Guns of Avalon" +aliases = ["brain-rot/fantasy/chronicles-of-amber/guns-of-avalon-1971/"] ++++ + +The fastest fantasy in the wild west continues where we left off. +Corwin escaped his prison, and armed with newly regrown eyes, is ready for his revenge. + +_[Chronicles of Amber](/fantasy/chronicles-of-amber/)_ are like nothing I've ever read. +Mostly because I've never been into fantasy, but still. +At no point of _Guns of Avalon_ nor of _[Nine Princes in Amber](/fantasy/chronicles-of-amber/nine-princes-in-amber/)_ have I felt that I'm reading a published book. +It's rather what I would imagine as a synopsis of the book that one sends to an agent would look like. + +Characters? Screw them, they only serve a purpose. +The world? Screw it, let's create it as we go. +Magic system? I am sure not even Zelazny has any idea how it works at this point. + +But at the same time, I can't stop reading it. +From outside, those two books I've finished sound like pulp. +I should hate it. +But there is so much going on, and those things happen fast. + +Corwin's goal this time is to buy carbines from the Royal Air Force and retake Amber. +Yup - this magical being, from an eternal family, who is able to travel between dimensions[^fn:1], whose eyes just regrown, is planning to retake a magical land using firearms. +And somehow it all makes sense. + +_Guns_ serve as a direct continuation of the first book, but the ending paints a different route the series seems to be heading. +I am very much invested and I interested what's going to happen. +I should hate this book, but I love it. + +Zelazny, you were a strange writer indeed. +This series reads like a creation of some D&D infused teen, and yet I can't put it away. + +[^fn:1]: or whatever Shadows are |