I Read Books: To Green Angel Tower: Storm

To Green Angel Tower: Storm

The fantasy tetrology reaches its end. Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, the three swords, are drawn to the Hayholt where High King Elias plans to use the Storm King’s magic to make everything right. His daughter wants him to stop. Simon wants to stop him too. Josua, his brother also wants him to stop. They all try and get into the castle in various ways – tunnels, sieges, accidentally falling through the bottom of the old king’s grave etc.

There’s a lot of wandering through the tunnels under the Hayholt in this. Maybe too much? But if we didn’t do that, we’d not get the true impression of being lost down there, and the various layers of the metaphor that is (sometimes within the story) being literalised. So I guess it works out.

The ending moves a bit quicker, pays off several earlier bits that seemed just weird at the time, and then ties up all the loose ends in a leisurely bow.

Read This: For a satisfying end to a long and atmospheric fantasy saga
Don’t Read This: Long fantasy sagas turn you off