Rating: 
Summary: Different and Clever
Review: Unsentimental and strange inside familiar settings. Sometimes the grimness is a bit forced, but overall it's well justified within the story, which is good. Monument is interesting, moves fast and is worth reading, especially if you're steeped in the trite tropes of most fantasy novels. Ian Graham is the Graham Greene of fantasy literature, but you might not want to make a steady diet of his work. (I hope he writes more, though.) A load of weary cynicism and nihilism could end up as forced and as false as pablum, I think. Even so, Graham's outlook is a breath of fresh air. For the gamers out there, this is very much what your D&D world would actually be like. Fun, huh?
Rating:
Summary: Different and Clever
Review: Unsentimental and strange inside familiar settings. Sometimes the grimness is a bit forced, but overall it's well justified within the story, which is good. Monument is interesting, moves fast and is worth reading, especially if you're steeped in the trite tropes of most fantasy novels. Ian Graham is the Graham Greene of fantasy literature, but you might not want to make a steady diet of his work. (I hope he writes more, though.) A load of weary cynicism and nihilism could end up as forced and as false as pablum, I think. Even so, Graham's outlook is a breath of fresh air. For the gamers out there, this is very much what your D&D world would actually be like. Fun, huh?
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