![]() ![]() ![]() My initial excitement over this return to the Western genre is petering out, because it seems that everyone is telling the same story. Maybe I would have liked it more had I not already read the first two thirds in Walk on Earth a Stranger, Vengeance Road and Under a Painted Sky. I didn't think it worked and, if you ask me, it succeeded in taking an area of the world that is oft-unexplored in modern fantasy and westernizing it.Ģ) For the most part, this book mirrors the plot of the stream of other Westerns we've seen lately. By "Western", I mean cowboys, shoot outs, saloons, etc. On two levels.ġ) Firstly, I just did not like the fusion of Arabian mythology with a Western setting. I'm willing to admit that part of my problem with this book is a personal one. It takes a very long time to get there, though, and the journey is a slow one. ![]() Rebel of the Sands does pick up toward the end when the real fantasy and magic elements are finally introduced to the story. And yet, for the first two thirds, I was so painfully bored I very nearly DNFed it. A Middle-Eastern fantasy with djinn, magic and mythical horses? It's like a unique and delicious recipe for exactly the kind of book I would love. Jin had the sort of smile that would turn over whole empires to the enemy - that made me feel like suddenly I understood him exactly, even though I knew nothing about him. ![]()
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