To make
up for being late, I’m doing the next two book reviews in one. That, and they are the second and third books
in the Elric Saga. The Sailor on the Sea
of Fate and The Weird of the White Wolf wrap up the first trilogy in this
series by Michael Moorcock.
The antihero theme carries through these books, just like the first.. I
think I struggled more with the plot and idea of the second book. White Wolf is the third book and seemed to make a bit more sense to
me from a plot perspective. Sea of Fate
felt like Moorcock combined a knight in shining armor medieval fantasy with an
alien invasion futuristic novel. It just didn't fit as well for me. White Wolf
had the main character, Elric, off on a quest for magic. While he runs into similar issues in White
Wolf, Elric’s journey felt like it made more sense to me.
Now, I
know there are several more books in the series. From what I have been told, the stuff in Sea
of Fate will come back and make more sense later. I just don’t know if I can get that far. To me, at least, there feels like something
missing in the books. Maybe it’s the
antihero theme that isn’t drawing me in anymore.
Again,
not necessarily bad books, but not ones I would say to move to the top of your
reading list.
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