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Oops, it's quite late for my first review of a book read this year, or, in this case, a reread of a book I read as an adolescent.

Gaal the Conqueror: John White, Eagle, Inter Publishing Service 1992

This is subtitled ‘Book 2 of ‘The Archives of Anthropos’ and follows The Sword Bearer chronologically, filling in gaps between that book and The Tower of Geburah, but it was published fourth in this series. There was a teaser for a further sequel, which led me to discover that two had in fact been published, after the family member who’d bought me my copies of books in this series thought I’d aged out of reading them, so I hadn’t known about them before. I’m feeling reluctant about paying too much out to read them now after this book, and the diminishing returns of this series, in all honesty.

I found this book less satisfying than the earlier books, Read more... )
feather_ghyll: Boat with white sail on water (Sailboat adventure)
The Sword Bearer (Book 3 of the Archives of Anthropos): John White, Minstrel, 1989

As hinted in the last few books in this series, Read more... )
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The Iron Sceptre: John White. The Archives of Anthropos 2. Minstrel, 1988.


This is a sequel to The Tower of Geburah, and like that book, was read to me as a child. Some things about it have stayed with me even more than form the previous book, Read more... )
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The Tower of Geburah: John White. Kingsway Publications, 1985

Rereading this book as an adult was a singular experience for me, as it had been read aloud to me as a child, so some names and phrases were ringing in my ears as I reread them now. ‘The Tower of Geburah’ belongs to the subgenre of fantasy children’s books that takes the Christian allegory of the Narnia books as its model. If you want to use shorthand, you might call it Narnia for the TV generation. Read more... )

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