Grossman is a very skilled writer, and in The Bright Sword he tries his hand at a Golden Compass or American Gods style mythology-meets-religion epic, set in Arthurian legend, and I think he pulls off exactly what he intended, complete with many adventures and fever dream logic and intensity, but when all is said and done the problem is it’s just not that compelling, I didn’t really care about the characters enough, I think Grossman was so focused on the history and artifice he missed the pathos.
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