Susan V. (nrlymrtl) reviewed Throne of the Crescent Moon (Crescent Moon Kingdoms, Bk 1) on + 297 more book reviews
I really enjoyed this book, for a number of reasons. Characters, places, magics, and cultures new to me not based on European mythologies. Also, each character was flawed in some way which made them very real to me. And despite their imperfections, they were still fighting for the good. The bad guys are really bad like no qualms about killing little kids or stabbing you in the back kind of bad. I appreciate this in a fantasy it makes the struggle for good all the more important.
The play of light and dark makes for a whorling gem of a tale. The relaxing use of cardamom tea in between action scenes had me wishing for a hot cup myself. Saladin Ahmed sprinkles his prose with references to foreign places that make this story all the more tangible; camels trained to sniff out ink mushrooms and honey fried colocasia roots are just two such examples. All in all, Throne of the Crescent Moon is a most engaging book and I fully encourage you to check out his works.
The play of light and dark makes for a whorling gem of a tale. The relaxing use of cardamom tea in between action scenes had me wishing for a hot cup myself. Saladin Ahmed sprinkles his prose with references to foreign places that make this story all the more tangible; camels trained to sniff out ink mushrooms and honey fried colocasia roots are just two such examples. All in all, Throne of the Crescent Moon is a most engaging book and I fully encourage you to check out his works.
