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John Gregory Betancourt

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I didn't really expect to get a lot out of this collection... not among my usual categories, but I needed a quick read. There were I few written the century before last (1800's) that I couldn't connect with and skipped, but overall well worth it.
 
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acb13adm | Sep 13, 2023 |
Twee. Very YA, even though the heroine is supposedly 16, she felt and acted much younger. The writing too was very simplistic in style, I’ve said it was aimed at younger children not teenagers.

So-so, probably not worth bothering with unless it’s effectively a freebie (which it was for me - it was part of a bundle containing other books I wanted).
 
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Maddz | Jun 30, 2023 |
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/shadows-of-amber-by-john-betancourt/

Fourth and, praise be to God, final of the prequels to Roger Zelazny’s classic Amber series. It’s noticeably shorter than the other three, as if the writer had simply given up. Understandable if so. I read it several days before writing this and can’t now remember anything about it… (lisätietoja)
 
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nwhyte | 1 muu arvostelu | Jan 13, 2023 |
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/to-rule-in-amber-by-john-betancourt/

Third of the four books in the prequel series to Roger Zelazny’s Chronicles of Amber, by the much less gifted writer John Betancourt. Oberon, our hero, starts to put together a governing regime for Amber, the new magical centre based around the mysterious Pattern. I confess I had lost track of all of his brothers and sisters, and they are pretty indistinguishable as characters – apart from the one who is obviously going to perpetrate a sudden yet inevitable betrayal, and duly does so. Unnecessarily confusing that there is a princess called Blaise here and the original Chronicles had a prince called Bleys.… (lisätietoja)
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nwhyte | 1 muu arvostelu | Dec 26, 2022 |

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