utqtbry - reviewed on 2/14/2010 + 55 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

I am now thinking that I should have read this book before seeing the movie. It is one of the few cases in which the movie actually surpassed the book.

This book is in desperate need of characterization. Everyone seems so flat and unfocused. I understand this could be a result of the shortness of the work, or perhaps it was intentional through the prose. Sadly though because of it I have no care for any of the characters. I am not worried for their safety, their success, or their futures. Thus, I feel like I skimmed huge chunks of the book.

This book could also greatly benefit from a more exciting ending. Talk about anti-climactic. The main villain just gives up, his mother ends up being a haughty creature, you never discover anything further about the fellowship, Tristan just writes off the whole reason for his travels in the first place as if he never really cared to begin with.

I had wanted to read this book the moment I finished watching the movie, and now I wish I hadn't.

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