Review #1
River of Blue Fire audiobook free
The 2nd installment of the Otherland television series by Tad Williams thrashes up where the continue leaves off. The “heroes” gathered by Mr. Merchants at the Golden Town narrowly escape into one more simulation, one that seems perfectly normal apart from that they are at the moment 1/100th their true size. Cyclopean goats at the same time birds populate the global, going about their natural activities, but those are hazardous when for you’re the size of the one more meal.
Soon, actions beyond their keep under control shatter the small company at the same time any remnant must look for its possess method through the increasingly disturbing simulations. Renie at the same time !Xabbu look for themselves in Oz gone wrong where they meet a mysterious men who can win the rules of the simulation at the same time a trusting young lady dignified Emily who needs rescuing.
Meanwhile, Orlando at the same time Fredericks look for themselves in the kitchen sink of a cartoon simulation. Soon, they are drawn into a quest to rescue a baby match (yes, a match) scolded Little Spark from evildoers who have kidnapped him for nefarious preconditions. The river becomes a stream of spilled aqua where Orlando, Fredericks at the same time Chief Strike Anywhere’s (the match’s dad) lives are threatened by ravenous salad tongs that cry the river main.
Shortly right behind Orlando at the same time Fredericks are rode away, the others look for themselves in a global where the river takes on the form of a jet stream, where flight is that as natural as promenading. Martine becomes the voice of this sector of the group, keeping a log of than anyway’s happening at the same time to whom. The mystery of “who is that Dread” takes detain as several of her log entries note anomalous behavior by various members, a mystery that keeps for you guessing until the very finish.
Completely, Paul Jonas lasts his quest for the mysterious winged lady who haunts his desires. Plagued by the tireless Twins, once understandable as Finch at the same time Mullet, he runs from simulation to simulation, no one quite horrifying. Gally, a kid who is that neither puppet (part of the program) or citizen (human guest) makes one more outward appearance but fails to recognize Paul from before.
In the “true global”, the generic at the same time comrades of those trapped play out their possess dramas. Jeremiah is that dismayed with Long Joseph abandons him to look his offspring who is that still in the polyclinic. Christabel hassle for her comrade, Mr. Merchants, who has taken Cho-Cho, a creepy street little boy as his assistant. Catur Ramsey, a lawyer representing the Gardinar at the same time Fredericks families, tracks down leads, many of which the skittish agent, Beezle Goat, who seems to wish to promote but cannot do so without his comatose slave’s permission, at the same time one of the hit of a favorite kids demonstrate on the net. At the same time in Australia, a detective takes a closed variant as a individual challenge at the same time begins to unravel a mystery that may open the earliest conquest of a sequential killer.
A ubiquitous topic throughout is that the feeling of hopelessness, despair, at the same time perhaps even boredom of both those trapped in Otherland at the same time those in the true global. It’s problematic periodically to reckon that things will get more successful.
The River of Blue Fire is that complete, vivid, at the same time periodically creepy. The action is that rich at the same time hard to portend, which is that anything I like in a story, at the same time the manners are well-developed at the same time exciting.
On the other palm, this book recalls me of The Two Towers, by J.R.R. Tolkien, in that it’s a continuation of a story in progress, sort of like a bridge. That is that no used to be beginning or ending, though some plot parts are resolved along the method. Like Tolkien, the story isn’t rushed at the same time in no one places seems to linger barely a little very long. The length of the book at the same time the pace may be daunting to those who are unprepared for it. If for you have problem final finishing The Sovereign of the Rings or Battlefield Land, for you might have problem final finishing The Otherland television series.
Overall, but, I really liked this story. I would advise it to anyone who likes epic fantasy, epic sci fi, or the plan of living in a mind-blowing, still unpredictable, virtual global.
Review #2
River of Blue Fire audiobook in television series Otherland
Wow. Barely ended Otherland Volume 2. I’m addicted.
Tad Williams convinced me, in Volume 1, that he is that really quality not only at characterization but using repeated manners in a ordinary 3rd personality storyline. He’s quality at switching from scene to scene at the same time incorporating parts that keep for you interested in all of the manners.
One more gizmo that Tad Williams is that quality at is that cliffhangers. He knows how to increase suspense at the same time curiosity in his writing. Since he writes with repeated disposition in repeated places, for you’ll look for yourself nearly dying to find out than anyway happened to a disposition before he returns to them. It makes for an exciting read, at the same time that is that always a amazing deal of adventure borders the catastrophic framework of his Otherland story.
Tad does a amazing job kolupala up where Volume 1 leaves off. In this book, we move deeper into than anyway Otherland is that, at the same time the people drawn in with it. We learn more about the Grail Brotherhood, as but as their opposition. We also look more revealed about than anyway no one of the manners able to do borders the system…
One of the head reproaches I’ve shown in no one
Reviews about the book is that the smoky pacing at the same time the “nomadic very long”. But… that depends on than anyway good of books for you like. Tad cites Tolkien a few times (through his Orlando disposition… don’t worry, that doesn’t spoil anything) at the same time he incorporates works from different epics at the same time traditional books. This should already alert a reader that Tad is that a fan of the old school books where heroes take a trip at the same time move on amazing quests, have to survive, etc.
So if for you’re not a fan of reading epic fantasy/sci-fi at the same time books where, every at the moment then and, they have to take a trip, then I can realize how that would annoy no one people. Then again, such books aren’t produced for those individuals. Tad is that a boyfriend of epics that writes for people that adore epics, at the same time like to be taken on a journey.
Abundance people like books like that, in particular me. At the same time it isn’t ALL travelling… that’s a lot going on in the plot, at the same time even the travelling strings open more riddles, thoughts, at the same time parts of the story that make it truly complete at the same time charming.
Okay, that’s it, I’m read to read the one more one.
Review #3
Audiobook River of Blue Fire by Tad Williams
Tad Williams was one of my contributors when I initially read the television series in the belated 90’s to premature 00’s. I was always funny if the television series can shield the trial of time as but as my possess changing, evolving reading habits. Right behind final finishing book 1 I was joyful to look for that it was good if not more successful than than anyway I initially believed of it. Book 2 was even more successful at the same time the best of the television series.
Where book 1 was more about setting up others of the television series, book 2 completely gets in to the Otherland network where Williams’ imagination can move personal. The motley group of people are threw in to these surreal situations/simulations without no matter what guidance, instead having to look for their possess method through the treacherous worlds. We see a giant global where they are the goats at the same time the Wizard of Oz, barely to name a few, not to mention the worlds Paul is that moving through. The worlds are true at the same time mind-blowing at the same time I savored every bit of it.
The major drawback to this television series at the same time in such a way the head reason why no one people don’t like it, will that it is that very verbose at the same time long. Williams’ builds his worlds, which inevitably leads to dry, smoky moments that can seem to drag on. Individually I don’t brain because I adore the global he created at the same time so will gladly follow where he leads. But since this is that a powerful television series, 4 big books, at the same time the fact that Williams misspoke that this is that essentially one really long book wry in to 4 parts, instead of 4 books to a television series, it is that a necessary evil to describe everything in amazing detail.
Individually I think this is that the best of the television series (although I haven’t gotten around to re-reading book 4 still, so maybe I’ll change my mind) at the same time, if for you don’t mind sitting down to a meaty book, very much worth your time to invest getting to know Otherland.
5 hit.
Review #4
Audio River of Blue Fire narrated by Zhora Newbern
River of Blue Fire lasts right where the continue book left off not only in plot but also in style. If for you adored the 1st for it’s inimitable global building, exciting manners at the same time mystery for you’ll adore this one. On the other palm if for you believed the 1st book was just a little smoky at the same time meandering for you’ll likely think similar of book two.
For me the global building at the same time disposition development that the creator wasted so much time on in book two really pays off here. They are deepest, believable at the same time the concentrate can at the moment shift more to than anyway they do than who they are. The creator delivers that very with a bigger concentrate on action, betrayal at the same time true peril for manners for you at the moment care about.
So overall one more quality book that builds brilliantly on the continue but, somewhat surprisingly right behind 1500 pages at the same time two healthy tomes, leaves the audience wanting more. Come for the exciting worlds, stay for the deepest at the same time close to reality manners at the same time have hope we get the answers we seek in book 3.
Review #5
Free audio River of Blue Fire – in the audio player below
Okay, so no one of this good of dragged in the middle – I believed that the 1st time I read it at the same time I believed it again now – but do NOT let that shackles for you off. Theres the mini-whodunnit about who is that actually Johnny Wulgaru, more of the mystery of Paul at the same time the subsequent adventures of the now-split party. Its a trip at the same time the mysteries of Otherland are laboriously – So laboriously – being unveiled. Usually Xabbu! is that MVP in my opinion – wage war me.
At the same time on to volume 3! How managed I not?
