The Raven Tower

by

Paperback, 432 pages

Published Oct. 3, 2019 by Orbit.

ISBN:
9780356507026

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5 stars (2 reviews)

Listen. A god is speaking. My voice echoes through the stone of your master's castle. The castle where he finds his uncle on his father's throne. You want to help him. You cannot. You are the only one who can hear me. You will change the world. A triumph of the imagination, The Raven Tower is the first fantasy novel by Ann Leckie, New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards. Gods meddle in the fates of men, men play with the fates of gods and a pretender must be cast down from the throne in this breathtaking fantasy masterpiece.

4 editions

reviewed The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie

Nice god POV

5 stars

Standard fantasy narrative, except...

The narrator is a god and uses second person narrative to follow a human "main" character. The human is trans, and this isn't a defect, or a super power, it just is present in the world and accepted. Although twins are hated and feared in some cultures, despite not controlling how they are born.

Very Leckie, and also my favourite, I think. It's faster paced than the Ancillary books. Less tea and gloves.

reviewed The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie

De la bonne fantasy et c’est rare

4 stars

Merci de combiner un univers de style fantasy avec une vraie histoire. Combien d’histoires se contentent d’un univers de style fantasy et d’une histoire complètement manichéennes éclatée au sol qu’on a lue 40 fois depuis le Seigneur des anneaux… bonne histoire, réellement humaine.