5/9/2023 0 Comments Witch King by Martha Wells![]() When Tor first announced that Martha Wells was going to publish a new fantasy novel, I was instantly hooked. Let me demonstrate the trajectory of my enthusiasm for this book: If we were to say that such stories hit the ground running, then, by comparison, what Witch King does is hit the ground and-after taking a minute to take in its surroundings-decide that maybe staying down here isn’t such a bad idea after all. A good example of this would be Glen Cook’s Black Company or its successor, the Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson. ![]() Now, some books are really good at dropping you off in the middle of the action and letting you piece together what’s going on along the way. After finding a new mortal body, Kai must find out who betrayed him and his friends, and what happened during the time he was unconscious. ![]() The book opens with Kaiisteron, Prince of the Fourth House of the underearth (aka Witch King) waking up as a spirit around a year after his latest mortal body has been assassinated. I never read The Murderbot Diaries and, after reading the Witch King, I probably never will. (Disclaimer: This review was originally published on my blog at ) ![]()
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