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And starts agonising over the fact that her powers will make her live longer than him. Not if you both die horribly in the next chapter. I mean, get a grip, woman, just get on with it.
The problem for me is that this book is so dismal. All the things I loved about the first two - the weird flora and fauna, the etiquette, the elegant lifestyle and rituals of the Empire - all that is effectively gone, and the story staggers from one horrendous battle of monsters to another. It's like Frodo and Sam endlessly trekking through Mordor, really depressing stuff. Actually, it's worse, because there is so much gore and blood and spilled entrails and limbs chopped off, each monster more hideous and unbeatable than the last.
And although everything that happen is completely logical, and feels as if the whole story was worked out from day one, there was no emotional resonance to it, in the end. May 21, Simon Wood rated it it was amazing. Kinda blown away by Chris Wooding's Braided Path trilogy. I'm always impressed by how these guys manage to pull these things together in such a coherent way over a series of books. Things set up in book 1 come full circle to be paid off in book 3, or however many there are. It can't be easy - the books are separated by years and while you're writing book 3, book 1 and 2 have already been published and now you have no choice but to stick to what you've written about before.
Always impressed by that. Now I am a fan of this series, but Morgan plays it pretty fast and loose with the mythologies that he creates. I won't be surprised if, come book 3, whole strands are simply abandoned in favour new more immediate ideas and solutions. Then there's also the way Chris Wooding writes action. These books are chocked full of huge battle scenes - but they are always distinct from one another and always so vivid and visceral and always entertaining. Even the battles within the Weave, which is a sort of Psychic warfare, and one that happens often - and it should be pretty boring and repetitive, given its nature, but somehow Wooding always makes it fresh and exciting.
And of course the thing that really holds it all together is his fantastic characters and immaculate world building. You care for these characters and are fascinate by this world and the intricacies of these societies. Full of sex, politics, corruption, betrayal, revenge - all that good shit. But most of all the thing that blew me away was the mythology that Wooding created, and the way he was able to break it down to its most fundamental elements and then bring it right up to allowing us an understanding of the nature of the gods of this universe and their place in the greater scheme of things.
Pretty fucking amazing, if you ask me. Not sure which of the three I preferred - they were all fucking great. If Chris Wooding were to write another 20 books set in the world of Saramyr, I'd hungrily read them all. Four years later since book two, the war continues bleak. There have been small victories, but it is getting near the turning point where victory either happens now, or it will be impossible, so it's time for bigger, crazier and more desperate plans.
Which of course means insane battles full of blood and gore, very personal sacrifices and the strenght and willingness to go t An amazing finale! Which of course means insane battles full of blood and gore, very personal sacrifices and the strenght and willingness to go through with it. There are quite a few surprises in character development Mishani's mother impressed me the most, but wasn't the only one. In face of necessity, they continually push themselves further, very often at great personal risk.
And again, some die, despite all efforts.
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Don't get too attached, is what I'm saying. I loved how each side of the war had a different way of fighting, and how it fit with the nature of each army. I loved how the attacking or the defending were logical and well tought out according to the situation or the surrounding environment, instead of the typical lazy meeting-in-a-field-and-charging-against-eachother you get in most fantasy novel wars. I also loved that despite having people with special abilities on each side, they weren't all-powerfull and won battles single-handedly. There was such a thing as troop moral, even. All in all, it was bleak and violent and miserable, but the characters pushed through with the plot and it was their very human efforts that made it all possible and believable.
Jan 06, Algernon rated it really liked it Shelves: A spectacular finish for an original series. Characterization is a bit lacking in this final volume, mostly because there is a lot of fighting to be done. The constant battering the main characters are receiving from the Weavers was a bit overwhelming, made me think for a while the series will turn fall in the trap of Jim Butcher of Codex Alera - another magic intensive epic where I felt the author went overboard by making the characters too strong.
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The Braided Path narrowly avoided this, and in A spectacular finish for an original series. The Braided Path narrowly avoided this, and in fact, the magic system in Chris Wooding series is one of the main attractions for me, together with the oriental culture worldbuilding and his ability to write good battle scenes. Apr 14, William rated it really liked it. The final novel in the Braided Path trilogy manages to successfully build upon the previous two novels to produce a largely satisfying conclusion to the series.
At the end of the previous book the Weavers seemed to have delivered a devastating blow to their opponents. As we pick up the story a few years later we find that the Weavers haven't had everything their own way, but now seem poised to achieve a final victory over their enemies. The series was never particularly light-hearted reading but The final novel in the Braided Path trilogy manages to successfully build upon the previous two novels to produce a largely satisfying conclusion to the series. The series was never particularly light-hearted reading but the final volume is particularly grim, starting off with a battle featuring a horrific and seemingly unstoppable new foe and then progressing through a series of battles and set-backs for Kaiku and her allies in the fight to save Saramyr.
Throughout the series Wooding has shown he isn't afraid to kill off characters and this continues here, with several important characters getting killed, including a few memorable and fitting ends for some of them. If the first book in the series was maybe a bit too predictable at times, the ending of the story is a bit more original although I suspect I'd have been more impressed with one crucial plot twist if I hadn't anticipated it due to Guy Gavriel Kay using a very similar plot device in his Fionavar Tapestry series.
The ending does have a bittersweet and somewhat cynical feel to it, which is appropriate given the rest of the series, a purely happy ending would have seemed a bit jarring. Overall, this was a series that improved as it went on and although I've read better epic fantasy series in recent years and it was never quite as compelling as the exuberant adventure of Woodings' later Ketty Jay series, the Braided Path trilogy was an entertaining read. Jun 23, Andreea Pausan rated it liked it.
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I have just finished the Weavers of Saramyr trilogy and I would like to give some fresh impressions: The first book, the Braided Path, had it all: The second gave the main characters room to grow, to assert themselves within the world Chris Wooding creates: The Ascendancy Veil ends the battle against the Weavers and gives hints that the future holds new challenges for our protagonists. All and all, it was a rewarding read and it was a pleasure to watch Kaiku's come of age: One more character I followed with great interest was Mishani: Although very much alive and full of passion, with decisions of consequence for the development of the action, she remains somewhat mysterious and aloof, probably also because she has no special magic: The world Wooding creates also reminds of a Japanese painting, from the depiction of demons and fabulous Aberrant animals, to the Saramyric language divided between literary cultured high honorifics and a low peasant different language and the wonderful auditive and visual descriptions, all coming together as brush strokes across a vast canvas to form a detailed, almost sensual experience.
I normally find this to be a very satisfying end to this series, re-reading it now granted this must be around the 4th or 5th time reading this book I find myself wanting another book in the series or another series based in the future to see if the events that Kaiku fears and discusses at the end do come about. I stand by my review of the earlier book in that this reminds me very much of Game of Thrones, however this re-read also makes me realise that these books can be seen as not very sub I normally find this to be a very satisfying end to this series, re-reading it now granted this must be around the 4th or 5th time reading this book I find myself wanting another book in the series or another series based in the future to see if the events that Kaiku fears and discusses at the end do come about.
I stand by my review of the earlier book in that this reminds me very much of Game of Thrones, however this re-read also makes me realise that these books can be seen as not very subtle warnings as to the effects of pollution on our world - this became especially obvious during the Axekami segments of the book - simply think of Aberrants as mutations and we have our analogy.
Asara remains my favourite character - despite having a smaller presence in this book she certainly has a fulfilling story and I do feel for her considering the way she is treated by Cailin , Mishani pulls in as a close second with Tsata and Kaiku coming in joint third. Nomoru I could do without, I didn't find her overly interesting in the second book and I find her less so now.
I think her plot is an interesting one combining her brief unnamed appearance in book one with her tracking in book two and budding relationship with Yugi to her revenge and unemotional decisions in this book she has all the elements to be a really interesting person but unfortunately her characterisation just annoys me. Overall I think this is a five star series, and if the author ever decides to revisit Saramyr I would be interested in reading about it.