Irene's little brother goes into a coma after some weird experiences on the net and Irene starts to investigate – suddenly she is followed and people are trying to kill her, maybe things are just a bit more complicated than a young boy overdosing on net-usage. Otherland takes place half in South Africa and half in some kind of virtual space (and the word cyber isn't used once which is a big plus). I better stop with this metaphor before I get in to deep.Īnyway Otherland is interesting enough and well written enough that I'll look around for Volume II (River of Blue Fire) when it comes out in paperback next year. It's like long foreplay, which can be good, but when you have to wait several months before getting to the really steamy parts, the foreplay has to be a bit more than just good to keep the memory alive or the steamy parts (that's volume II) have to be really, really hot. The really hard question is whether the book is worth reading or not, I'm really not sure because the book has one more problem the plot never really takes off until the very end. I guess that you are getting the picture here. The background milieu is fairly detailed and interesting, but not interesting in and of itself. The plot is interesting, but not gripping.
The characters are nice and deep enough that I care about them, but I couldn't really identify with them. While I can't put my finger on any real faults in the book, I can't point to anything really fantastic or amazing in it either.
#Tad williams otherland books series#
It's so easy when a series is so clearly good (like Nights Dawn by Hamilton) or when it's clearly bad (and I luckily can't think of any real stinkers off the top of my head). This somewhat ups the stakes when one has to decide whether to recommend a book or not. City of Golden Shadow is the first volume in Tad Williams Otherland series.Įight hundred pages in a rather small font and only the first in a series.
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