Fantasy

The Great Hunt Book Cover

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.

Robert Jordan The Eye of the World Book Cover

The Eye of the World

Senses of whimsy and nostalgia simply cannot carry a book of this length.

Time Bandits Movie Poster

Time Bandits

Time Bandits is whimsical and fantastical, sure, but it has an unsettling undercurrent emanating from the eclectic mind of Gilliam.

Roger Zelazny The Guns of Avalon

The Guns of Avalon

It’s a neat enough premise, but so far the series has provided only a shallow frame for a story.

Roger Zelazny Nine Princes in Amber Book Cover

Nine Princes in Amber

There is simply too much that is objectively bad to outweigh its positive attributes.