Review: Beautiful prose, amazing story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 5, 2012
I mean, I don't even know how to review this book without saying the same things that a million other reviewers have already said.I don't read epic fantasy.  It took me like three months to get through The Lord of the Rings.  I've had this book for a while but hadn't picked it up because it was so lengthy.Lengthy, it was not.  Maybe in word count, sure, but I zipped through this book.  It hooked me from beginning to end so that I was frantically turning pages to find out what happened next.  The action starts immediately - like BAM, here you are, here's these characters and they're doing something you have NO CLUE about.  And from there, it's an epic adventure all the way til the end. (Heh. Epic. Pun.)I was absolutely in love with Tilda, who rather than being a hard-ass, is still often just a girl who isn't quite sure of everything.  I love this rag-tag band of people that ends up getting dragged together, and the end was perfect.  I can't wait to read the next!!Like everything Ed McNally writes, The Sable City was beautiful.  This man has a grasp of words and putting them together into poetry and storytelling that most writers will never have.  This book played out like a movie in my mind--the scenery descriptions stunning, the world SO REAL and so artfully crafted that it was easy to forget it didn't exist.  This series has the potential to be as famous as LoTR or that George RR dude, but MUCH BETTER.