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May. 14th, 2015 08:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
madbakerI just finished Simon Morden's Arcanum. I enjoyed his Petrovich books, so I was willing to give this a shot - despite the previous books being post-apocalyptic technopunk and this being historic epic fantasy.
I liked it quite a bit more than I expected. Especially given the potentially fatal cliched plot (European feudal society based on magic, magic goes away). His characterization was excellent; people were flawed, but sometimes were heroic and sometimes did bad things for good reasons, or maybe reasons they thought were good. Like real people.
I heartily hope he is writing more in this setting. (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
desperance, any insight?)
I liked it quite a bit more than I expected. Especially given the potentially fatal cliched plot (European feudal society based on magic, magic goes away). His characterization was excellent; people were flawed, but sometimes were heroic and sometimes did bad things for good reasons, or maybe reasons they thought were good. Like real people.
I heartily hope he is writing more in this setting. (
desperance, any insight?)
