Book: Lord of the Spiders
Year: 1965
Pages: 160
Part of Series: Michael Kane #2
Reading Time: 3 days (2021)
Rating: 3 Stars
So this was the second story on this short novels from Michael Moorcock. And after reading all, the weakest one.
Michael Kane was another character in the world of sword and sorcery on Mars. Nothing really particular interesting on him besides the idea of peace instead of strength of arms. That's different at least.
All other characters are not that flash out besides Hool Haji. The title goes back to Lord of the Spiders and this is what 10 pages of the novel? It makes zero sense. So basically this follows swiftly the first novel and now Michael must confront the ones that plot to over throne his wife's city.
As other novels, some complains - fast pace that sometimes jump and we didn't knew how we did get there. Action scenes weakest element.
Overall, I read and finish because one of my goals for this year is to finish pending trilogies or series...
Should you read it?
- Well, if you want to read everything from Moorcock multiverse - Yes
- You want to read Sword and Sorcery - Then, no. Way better out there. Most are older than this - late 20's, 30's , 40's and 50's.
Some new writers are going around with this again, so the future could be bright. I've read a couple of weeks before - and it's frankly way better. Go read my review
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