The Great Hunt
After two books, it feels like we should be roughly 300 pages into the first book in a trilogy, not half a million words deep into a fifteen books series.
After two books, it feels like we should be roughly 300 pages into the first book in a trilogy, not half a million words deep into a fifteen books series.
Time Bandits is whimsical and fantastical, sure, but it has an unsettling undercurrent emanating from the eclectic mind of Gilliam.
It’s a neat enough premise, but so far the series has provided only a shallow frame for a story.
There is simply too much that is objectively bad to outweigh its positive attributes.