Kirith Kirin

This novel is a high fantasy that is driven by its world building, to the detriment of the plot. The magic system, the religion, the languages, and the map are examples of the intense thought and planning that went into this book. The plot, however, is simple. I began reading it, enjoying the prose, and the excitement of the beginning. But the prose soon became a snooze, with long descriptions of every place, the travelling of the main character, the tons of back stories. Normally, all these things would have made this a great book, but somehow it just didn't come together for me. Still, it won the Lambda Literary Award for SF/Fantasy/Horror in 2001, and it has a pretty big fan base. I'm just not one of them.

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