The Raven’s power is weakening and outside forces are threatening Iraden’s borders, and in the midst of all this, the Lease has suddenly disappeared leaving their contract to the Raven unfulfilled and the city vulnerable for the first time in centuries. No other God has been a match for his power for centuries, but it is clear that things are about to change. The great God’s power is gained from the sacrifice of a Lease a human chosen by the Raven to rule the kingdom and enact the Raven’s will in return for his life. The Raven protected the kingdom of Iraden from atop his tower in Vastai for centuries, allowing the city to flourish unhampered from outside threats. It is, rather, Do you care?” What is this book about? The relevant question here, it seems to me, is not any of those things. One can make any number of careful and informed guesses. Nor is the question how we will be affected. This is not truly a question– they can and they will.
But I am glad that I read it.“The question is not whether distant events will affect us. I’d say that The Raven’s Tower is an interesting book with cool ideas, but the strange structure and storytelling left it just on the edge of enjoyable to me. If you like Ann Leckie from her Ancillary series, you might have better luck than I did with this book something in her writing style leaves me feeling flat. I also felt that the fact that we are only given two half stories instead of one larger one weakened both of them a little. One issue is that half of the book is told in second person limited it made me feel disconnected from the characters on that side of the story, since we are only given speculation about their internal states. I liked the world, and a few of the characters, but sometimes struggled to get really engrossed in it. There’s a phrase Brendan Hurst uses, and that’s “I’m glad I read it, I’m not sure I liked it,” and I think that applies here for me. And all else aside, the climax where the two stories finally crash into each other, is incredibly cool.Īll in all, I’m not sure what I thought of The Raven’s Tower. My curiosity about how the two stories were related was a lot of what drove me through the book. The two stories work well together, despite one spanning thousands of years and the other lasting a handful of days.
The second one ends up being less grandiose than it sounds: there are gods lying around everywhere, and this one is a bit of a homebody. The book follows two threads: a prince’s attendant trying to help his master reclaim his rightful seat, and the entire life story of an ancient god.
The Raven’s Tower is a very strange novel.
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