The Curse of the Mistwraith

I won't be rating this book. If I were to describe it in 1 word it would be challenging. This is my 3rd or 4th try reading it, and it took me about 4 months to actually read it this time. I'm glad I persevered through it and did it. I hope Janny Wurts gets recognized for her amazing work as a writer because I recognize how good this book is without even managing to grasp it to its fullest. I look forward to coming back to this series and trying it again.

(maybe I'll come back to this and actually try to write some sort of a review since I really did appreciate the reading experience this book gave me.)

This book was amazing, and funny, and thrilling and beautiful. Wurts' writing is startlingly poignant and aggressively different than the majority of fantasy writing. She packs in details about things that makes the world feel more real (ex. horse/horse riding knowledge). The main characters were fascinating and very appealing, the world itself has so many mysteries I can't wait to read more. This book plays on a lot of fantasy tropes, exploring them from different angles and confronting ugly aspects of fantasy/quest/prophecy stories that are often overlooked. Can't wait for what's in store.

This was my second reading of this book and it was harder to get into then I remember from my first read. It might be because I know that this book has a lot of information in it that sets up the whole series. I do like how [a:Janny Wurts 8591 Janny Wurts http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1232652981p2/8591.jpg] doesn't make things black and white with this series. There is no good and evil in the traditional sense but a lot of gray and how the characters handle things is left up to them. I don't feel like the characters are on a set path. I look forward to re-reading the rest of the series and moving into the new book coming out soon!