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Detailed Skull Sculptures
Customers are highly impressed with the detailed skull sculptures and intricate world building present in A Sea of Skulls, praising its epic fantasy elements, character development, and immersive storytelling.
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Quality
, ssh, realistic female dynamics, & battles in glorious tactical detail.
A real rollercoaster ride through the pits of despair to triumphal acclaim.
Despite the book's length, none of it ever feels like filler that you have to slog through to get to the action, as there is al... Read More
Though relatively minoir, this is inexcusable as you will rarely find these many errors in most currently published works (even... Read More
Competitiveness
It's better than sanderson's stormlight archive, better than erikson's malazan, and somehow even better than abercrombie's first law.
The only series better than aodal is lord of the rings, and vox day will not beat tolkien.
The depth of worldbuilding found in here is rivaled only by greenwood's forgotten realms, martin's a song of ice and fire, and ... Read More
Bottom line: objectively, this series is already better than "a song of ice and fire" and it will remain that way assuming it d... Read More
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- This product had a total of 44 reviews as of our last analysis date on Oct 13 2024.
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Nobody has yet beaten tolkien
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And in my opinion nobody ever will
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
And while mistborn is justly praised for its really strong worldbuilding its simply nowhere near as good as the arts of dark and light which has entire cultures races religions even languages fleshed out
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One aspect that particularly stands out is the authors grasp of medieval warfare tactics and strategy a rare find in epic fantasy outside of joe abercrombies work
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This series reminds me a lot of hbos 34rome34 in terms of its dialogue and characters though im not entirely sure why
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I was disheartened that we only got 2 seasons of rome but for fans of that series 34arts of dark and light34 may fill the void left by its premature cancellation though it admittedly lacks a dynamic duo comparable to titus pullo and lucius vorenus
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One major criticism i have with the book at least the hardcover edition is the quality of editing