Ayman F. (thebigaym) reviewed on 7/15/2015 + 63 more book reviews

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I'm more into hard sci-fi, science fiction which is scientifically accurate. I've read Lord of the Rings and Song of Ice and Fire novels, but I always poo-pahed fantasy as a genre.
This fantasy book, which I read for a book club and in whose selection I played no role, overcame my prejudices and pleased me immensely. Contrary to my preconceived notions, the book did not create drama through cliched violence, sex and gore, but through imagination. I loved how the author built a relationship between the "actual" world and the Faerie ("fantasy") world. On our side, our nursery rhymes described "reality" in the fantasy world.
In addition, the fantasy world's characters were filled with the same types of ambitions and foibles as the human world.
There were so many threads, yet the author really brought them together with panache!

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