![]() ![]() The Dragonbone Chair is my favorite fantasy series for the same reason - I love his ability to really build a world and make it seem effortless. Williams is clearly setting up a quest narrative and spends 1000 pages maneuvering everyone together, but he’s such a good writer that I enjoyed the whole thing immensely. This is a long and complex book with a lot of characters, and it’s the setup for the next three books in the series. !Xabbu helps Renie try to rescue her little brother from a misadventure in a VR club, but her brother ends up in a coma and Renie becomes determined to try to figure out why he’s not waking up and what the mysterious golden city she saw has to do with it. He is basically the last remaining Bushman and serves as a way for Williams to explain the history and theory of VR to the reader without just narrating straight at us. Renie is a teacher at a university in South Africa when she meets !Xabbu, a Bushman who has come to the city to learn. With a long train commute and a sudden urge to read Tad Williams, the stars aligned.Ĭity of Golden Shadow is set in a near-future world dominated by virtual reality. ![]() At this pace, I should be done in about 39 more years, so there’s hope! I think this really is a case of a book needing to be read at the right time. ![]() After carrying this book around from apartment to apartment for thirteen years, I finally made it beyond the first hundred pages and have finished the first book in the quartet. ![]()
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