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Amber is the one real world, casting infinite reflections of itself.
That's as good as it gets. The blurb sounded appealing and the reviews of The Amber Chronicles on Amazon are excellent. If you add to this the fact that the series comes bearing the branding that befits a "Fantasy Masterwork" the everything was in place to read books of the highest quality by an author at the top of his game.
Unfortunately, this is either the worst or the second worst fantasy book that I have ever read. Only Robert Jordan's prequel to The Wheels of Time series compares. A New Spring and Nine Princes of Amber are the only books that I have given up on before completing. I normally like to give the book until the end until making a judgment but this is a steaming pile of horse dung. I wouldn't even call it fantasy as it probably belongs more within the Sci-Fi realm.
Why is this book so bad? Firstly, Roger Zelazny's writing is poor, grammar is appalling and he can not even put a decent sentence together. The characters are even worse, no depth, unsympathetic, one-dimensional at best. I didn't care about the story, I didn't care about the characters.
Avoid these books at all cost, there are just too many excellent authors out there to waste your time on this drivel. I read that this was a timeless classic, that is, please mind my French, bollocks.
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