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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I think you are right. The Sunset Warrior books do seem to be cult classics. I would read them again. I didn't mean to ruin your recommendation.
If you're interested, here's the review I wrote for Sunset Warrior back when I read it. |
Interesting. Thanks. Different folks, different strokes, I guess. If you haven't tried them, book 2 and 3 are very different from book 1. The character leaves the Freehold and travels through a distinctly oriental world which I think is beautifully evoked. I agree the books have their flaws, but I loved it all. Each to their own. Personally I find the criticisms that the prose is murky or whatever very odd (edit: I think I understand the criticism now. See below.). I think the author writes brilliant prose at times.
Here's the start from book 4:
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THE Scarred Man enters Sha’angh’sei at sunset. He pauses before the towering cinnabar escarpment of the western gate and turns in his dusty saddle. Above him, a pair of ebon carrion birds spread their grotesquely long wings, hovering, startlingly set off by the flare of the sky. Piled clouds riding like chariots of crimson fire obscure for long moments the bloated ablate of the sun as it sinks slothfully toward the heights of the city already lost within the thickening haze. It is a unique mark of the sunsets in Sha’angh’sei that the city itself and the land all around it is first engulfed by the purest crimson, sliding, as the sun disappears behind the man-made facade into the amethyst and violet which heralds the night.
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I remember now that he writes very dense, heavy, wordy almost purple prose. Normally I don't like that style, but with these books, the author pulls it off, IMO. He uses tons of adverbs and adjectives, and yet they ALL add to the text somehow, I find. It's lush, exotic.