The Reaver Road

Rating:
Summary: Good.
Review: An excellent novel, another fine piece of work from Mr. Duncan. A well written book with believable characters.

Rating:
Summary: Great!
Review: Another great book by Duncan. I heartily recommend it, quite funny with an interesting storyline. The dialogue between the two main characters is worth buying the book for.

Rating:
Summary: Highly entertaining!
Review: Far superior to what I've read of the seemingly endless series work that Duncan has done, here he gives a laudable contribution to the lighthearted subgenre of fantasy (in the style of Fritz Leiber, L. Sprague de Camp, and Robert E. Vardeman). Thus, there are many amusing tongue-in-cheek adventures. Thoroughly entertaining protagonists and settings make for a worthy diversion over two or three evenings. A curious feature of the story, that I couldn't help but notice, however, is that the two protagonists apparently are naked throughout fully half of the book!!! 8.5hrs

Rating:
Summary: A developed portrayal of an original Fantasy religion.
Review: What I remember most about this novel on first thought is that from the first pages a well developed and consistent religion dominates the novel. The gods, their names, their histories, their interactions with the world, and the impact of their actually existing is found in the flagstones the novel is built on, and the characters are able to walk around on these metaphorical flagstones with great confidence.

After religion, I found the comedy of the novel, often based in light cynicism, to help lead me down through the pages toward the more important parts of the novel. Then, the heroic style drama comes to the fore, with the main character and the main supporting character getting into a lot of fairly serious trouble. The problems facing them mount and mount, I was afraid the story would literally cop-out at the end, but surprisingly, it doesn't and provides for a satisfactory conclusion (something sorely missed in many stories).

Although there is another novel based on the viewpoint character, The Hunter's Haunt, it has nothing to do with The Reaver Road, which is a self-contained novel.

Rating:
Summary: A developed portrayal of an original Fantasy religion.
Review: What I remember most about this novel on first thought is that from the first pages a well developed and consistent religion dominates the novel. The gods, their names, their histories, their interactions with the world, and the impact of their actually existing is found in the flagstones the novel is built on, and the characters are able to walk around on these metaphorical flagstones with great confidence.

After religion, I found the comedy of the novel, often based in light cynicism, to help lead me down through the pages toward the more important parts of the novel. Then, the heroic style drama comes to the fore, with the main character and the main supporting character getting into a lot of fairly serious trouble. The problems facing them mount and mount, I was afraid the story would literally cop-out at the end, but surprisingly, it doesn't and provides for a satisfactory conclusion (something sorely missed in many stories).

Although there is another novel based on the viewpoint character, The Hunter's Haunt, it has nothing to do with The Reaver Road, which is a self-contained novel.