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Summary: My favorite Volsky book
Review: The reviewers that said they were disappointed inspired me to write this because I completely disagree. Granted, different people like different books, but I truly think this is a great book. I like "Illusion" and "The White Tribunal", but I love "Wolf of Winter" and "The Gates of Twilight". Both of them gripped my imagination firmly and pulled me into Volsky's world completely. Paula Volsky has a gift of being about to write in such a way that an exotic location becomes so lifelike that you feel like you are really there, and I never felt so completely drawn in as I did in this book. The story is intruguing, the characters are believeable, and the descriptiveness of the location is incredibly lifelike.
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Summary: the characters are there.
Review: this book takes you to fictional, Vonahrish colonized Kahnderule (akin to India/S. Asia), where a decidedly alien (though now degenerated) 'god' is still lurking about. it's a beautifully detailed and colorful fantasy setting.
Perhaps to match her setting and her characters --the two leads being entre-deux-- her style of prose remains the same, but the way she constructs the story/characters/meaning has a different flavor... more subtle, and more abstract. I'd guess that she was experimentating a little. I think it's an excellent book, but if your looking for another Eliste VoDerrival, she's not here.
(Note to Amazon; I used some of the same phrasing that i used for a review elsewhere).
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Summary: Not her best, but not too bad
Review: We return to the world of Illusion--old stomping ground--with Ms. Volsky's The Gates of Twilight; the time is a few generations after that wonderful novel (she does satisfy our curiosity about Dref and Eliste in a few placating sentences), the place a colony of post-revolutionary Vonahr. The setting is familiar to those who know about the English settlements in the Indies (any passing knowledge of the Jungle Book suffices) and the plot unsurprisingly touches on the injustices of imperialism thereof. The storyline is complete, unlike The Wolf of Winter, but feels sketchy in parts, unlike Illusion. Secondary characters, which in her previous works would have resurfaced somewhere within the novel to lend a sense of completeness and continuity, are dropped after a few limp scenes. Ms. Volsky also begins to develop her "planar" concept of God, which was hinted at with The Wolf of Winter's necromancy, and is more fully developed in The White Tribunal. On the whole, The Gates of Twilight is readable, enjoyable for an afternoon, but not a true indication of Ms. Volsky's talent.--Emily C. A. Snyder
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