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3.8 AVERAGE
3.8 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
A fitting end to the Corum trilogy (I understand that 3 more books were written later, but this feels like a end). Loved the tie-in with Elric and it was nice to see the events of the Vanishing Tower from another prospective. I don't know how Moorcock is able to tell so much of a grand story while using so few pages.
End of the trilogy, weighed down by a totally needless side-story retelling a story from the Elric series from Corum's point of view, with the result that Corum gets upstaged in his own book. Full review: https://fakegeekboy.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/the-vengeance-of-cornwall/
adventurous
dark
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Corum en finit avec les dieux du chaos qui infestaient les quinze plans. Mais pour ça, il doit renouer avec d'autres aspects du champion éternel, retrouver Tanelorn, et libérer un dieu ancien qui élimine les dieux du chaos. C'est une belle conclusion à cette première époque des aventures de Corum, pleines de nostalgie, de sentiments hautement chevaleresques, et de sacrifices aussi beaux qu'inutiles.
Originally published on my blog here in May 2000.
The last of the Swords of Corum trilogy is very similar to the last of Hawkmoon's adventures in [b:The Quest for Tanelorn|1891203|The Quest for Tanelorn (Chronicles of Castle Brass, #3)|Michael Moorcock|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1301786899s/1891203.jpg|1446207]. Corum, last of the Vadagh race, faces a renewed attack by the Chaos gods, led by Mabelode, King of the Swords, brother of the less powerful gods destroyed by Corum in the earlier books of the trilogy. This time the attack, again mediated by the barbaric Earl Glandyth, is more subtle, involving sorcery rather than military force. His minions have created a potion which causes distrust and dissension, so that those affected by it destroy each other.
Battling the tensions this psychoactive gas causes within their party, Corum, his wife Rhalina and their friend Jhary set out on a quest to destroy Mabelode, which they soon discover is only possible after Corum travels to Tanelorn with two other aspects of the Eternal Champion to perform a task at the Conjunction of a Million Spheres, an event which can affect every one of the infinite number of parallel worlds.
The joining together of different versions of the Eternal Champion in a quest for Tanelorn is exactly the same as the Dorian Hawkmoon plot. The atmosphere of The King of the Swords is as strong as in any of Moorcock's novels, it just has a re-used plot. (This is, of course, part of the point of the idea of the Eternal Champion; it does, however, rather reduce the interest of this novel.)
The last of the Swords of Corum trilogy is very similar to the last of Hawkmoon's adventures in [b:The Quest for Tanelorn|1891203|The Quest for Tanelorn (Chronicles of Castle Brass, #3)|Michael Moorcock|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1301786899s/1891203.jpg|1446207]. Corum, last of the Vadagh race, faces a renewed attack by the Chaos gods, led by Mabelode, King of the Swords, brother of the less powerful gods destroyed by Corum in the earlier books of the trilogy. This time the attack, again mediated by the barbaric Earl Glandyth, is more subtle, involving sorcery rather than military force. His minions have created a potion which causes distrust and dissension, so that those affected by it destroy each other.
Battling the tensions this psychoactive gas causes within their party, Corum, his wife Rhalina and their friend Jhary set out on a quest to destroy Mabelode, which they soon discover is only possible after Corum travels to Tanelorn with two other aspects of the Eternal Champion to perform a task at the Conjunction of a Million Spheres, an event which can affect every one of the infinite number of parallel worlds.
The joining together of different versions of the Eternal Champion in a quest for Tanelorn is exactly the same as the Dorian Hawkmoon plot. The atmosphere of The King of the Swords is as strong as in any of Moorcock's novels, it just has a re-used plot. (This is, of course, part of the point of the idea of the Eternal Champion; it does, however, rather reduce the interest of this novel.)