Name: Thomas Ross's review of The Witchwood Crown by Tad Williams
Item: The Witchwood Crown
Rating: 3.5
Author: Thomas Ross

Tad Williams

'Fawless epic fantasy . . . An instant fantasy classic' - Kirkus ************ Thirty years ago Ineluki, the Storm King, was destroyed and his armies scattered. Osten Ard has been at peace ever since, ruled by Simon Snowlock, kitchen boy made king, and Miriamele, King Elias' only child. But now age weighs upon their reign. Simon's dreams have deserted him, old allies die and betrayal and assassination threaten. His son and heir John Josua is years dead and his grandson, Morgan, is a wastrel. A journey of redemption and discovery beckons in the darkening world. And in the frozen North, in Nakkiga, the mountain fortress, Ineluki's ally, the Norn Queen, wakes from her deep, decades-long sleep and tells her followers that she will sleep no more. Humanity must be destroyed. Her sorcerers will bring a demon back from death, her warriors will seek the world for living dragon's blood... And finally the greatest artefact of all, the Witchwood Crown, will be hers. With a cast of hundreds - humans, giants, dragons, trolls, Sithi and Norn - The Witchwood Crown is epic fantasy as it used to be: classic, grand and sweeping and evidence that Tad Williams is the greatest living writer of the form.

Book One of The Last King of Osten Ard

The Witchwood Crown

Logan Smallegange

Slow start to what is shaping up to be a great quadrilogy. The Witchwood Crown feels a bit repetitive, revisiting many of the story beats of The Dragonbone Chair, but retaining its own, grittier identity, with the addition of many 

 new characters and promising plot points. 

Thomas Ross

Slow start to what is shaping up to be a great quadrilogy. The Witchwood Crown feels a bit repetitive, revisiting many of the story beats of The Dragonbone Chair, but retaining its own, grittier identity, with the addition of many amazing new characters and promising plot points. 

This is the second volume of the 1st book of the new Osten Ard trilogy. I liked it alot, because the plot gets under steam. I just found out the first Osten Ard trilogy, the Dragonbone Throne trilogy, actually inspired George RR Martin to write Game of Thrones. And, having read Osten Ard 1 and Game of Thrones afterwards, I can now see why this is so.

Tad Williams always delivers fast page turners.

Gregor Gross

This is the second volume of the 1st book of the new Osten Ard trilogy. I liked it alot, because the plot gets under steam. I just found out the first Osten Ard trilogy, the Dragonbone Throne trilogy, actually inspired George RR Martin to write Game of Thrones. And, having read Osten Ard 1 and Game of Thrones afterwards, I can now see why this is so.

Tad Williams always delivers fast page turners.

New York Times-bestselling Tad Williams' ground-breaking epic fantasy saga of Osten Ard begins an exciting new cycle! * Volume One of The Last King of Osten Ard The Dragonbone Chair, the first volume of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, was published in hardcover in October, 1988, launching the series that was to become one of the seminal works of modern epic fantasy. Many of today's top-selling fantasy authors, from Patrick Rothfuss to George R. R. Martin to Christopher Paolini credit Tad with being the inspiration for their own series. Now, twenty-four years after the conclusion of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Tad returns to his beloved universe and characters with The Witchwood Crown, the first novel in the long-awaited sequel trilogy, The Last King of Osten Ard. More than thirty years have passed since the events of the earlier novels, and the world has reached a critical turning point once again. The realm is threatened by divisive forces, even as old allies are lost, and others are lured down darker paths. Perhaps most terrifying of all, the Norns--the long-vanquished elvish foe--are stirring once again, preparing to reclaim the mortal-ruled lands that once were theirs....

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