The High King Of Montival (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
This is a book in S.M. Stirling's "Emberverse" series. I really enjoyed the first three books in this series - a vision of a future Earth in which an unexplained event has removed all modern technology from the world; electricity, the combustion engine, even steam power no longer work in this alternate reality.The first books in the series show a world in which people struggle to come to terms with the new reality and find themselves effectively re-inventing the medieval world. It's a clever and well imagined vision of an alternate history. Unfortunately Stirling has, in my view, taken the series too far and it becomes a series of adventurous romps in an increasingly fantasised society.If you're a real fan of Stirling's work then it's worth giving this a try. It's not a bad book but, for me, it's an idea taken that bit too far. This book was one of the most drawn out of the series. The action moves at a snail pace and the story is very slowly developing. I really enjoyed the first three books in the series but since then each successive book seems to have become more about dragging out the story rather then developing the story. S.M. Stirling had lost the freshness and sense of adventure promised in the earlier books.
What do You think about The High King Of Montival (2010)?
Good installment in the series. Looking forward to the next book.
—Rosey3001
Not far enough into it to have a strong opinion, yet anyway.
—chel
