At some point, I stopped being appalled by things and started thinking, “Ok, now that was just done for the shock value and to illustrate that the Nameless One is a Very Bad Man.” Yes, the Nameless One is a villain. The story was darker than the first two books, but I think it tried too hard to be dark. In comparison to Cadvan and Maerad, the characters fell flat.
I really got wrapped up in their story, and I was none-too-pleased to realize they weren’t in The Crow at all, but I decided to give it a chance anyway, and I was disappointed.
It took me a long time to pick this one up and read it, and I’ll be honest, it was because of the lack of Cadvan and Maerad. I loved The Riddle (with a few notable exceptions with parts near the end). Her libretto for Mayakovsky, score by Michael Smetanin, was shortlisted in the Drama Prize for the 2015 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. She also writes opera libretti, and the opera she co-wrote with Iain Grandage was Vocal/Choral Work of the Year in the 2015 Art Music Awards. As a critic she was named Geraldine Pascall Critic of the Year in 2009. She is a prize-winning poet and theatre critic, and has released seven collections of poems. Other fantasy titles include Black Spring (shortlisted for the Young People's Writing Award in the 2014 NSW Premier's Literary Awards) and The River and the Book, winner of the Wilderness Society's prize for Environmental Writing for Children. Her latest Pellinor book, The Bone Queen, was a 2016 Aurealis Awards Best Young Adult Book finalist.
Her most recent book is Fleshers, the first in a dazzling new SF series co-written with her husband, acclaimed playwright Daniel Keene. You can sign up to her monthly newsletter and receive a free Pellinor story at Alison Croggon is the award winning author of the acclaimed fantasy series The Books of Pellinor.
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