I received a copy of The Godborn by Paul S Kemp free to review via Netgalley. I should preface my thoughts by noting that I am not very familiar with Kemp’s The Twilight War trilogy and when reading this book I often felt as if I were a new reader to the Wheel of Time who had picked the series up at book four. I had the impression that a lot of assumptions of previous knowledge about the world have been made and I often found it difficult to keep up. I suspect that if you are already up to speed, you will have quite a different experience reading this book than mine. This is reflected in the low rating I gave this book. The Godborn tells of Vasen Cale’s quest to reunite the shards of Mask’s divinity which had been split among three people and to prevent Shar’s reincarnation which would lead to world destruction. At least that’s what I think it was about. I wasn’t very clear. What I liked The premise. I felt the idea of pieces of divinity having to be collected and reassembled interesting and well done. What I disliked Lack of focus. The Godborn…
I received a copy of The Godborn by Paul S Kemp free to review via Netgalley. I should preface my thoughts by noting that I am not very familiar with Kemp’s The Twilight War trilogy and when reading this book I often felt as if I were a new reader to the Wheel of Time who had picked the series up at book four. I had the impression that a lot of assumptions of previous knowledge about the world have been made and I often found it difficult to keep up. I suspect that if you are already up to speed, you will have quite a different experience reading this book than mine. This is reflected in the low rating I gave this book. The Godborn tells of Vasen Cale’s quest to reunite the shards of Mask’s divinity which had been split among three people and to prevent Shar’s reincarnation which would lead to world destruction. At least that’s what I think it was about. I wasn’t very clear. What I liked The premise. I felt the idea of pieces of divinity having to be collected and reassembled interesting and well done. What I disliked Lack of focus. The Godborn…