Amberlight by Sylvia Kelso
220 pages
Published 2007
Read from May 18 to May 27
Rating: ★★ out of 5
First impression of Amberlight,
prose related. Odd syntax one reads, object subject verb, foreign
rhythm. Else verb absent enirely. Subject, sometimes. Sensory images,
the gleam of light on stone, slap of water. Comma-stepped, pace hard to
get into. Stuttery. My own teenage experiments in "sophisticated" prose
to mind come often. At least trying, this Kelso, akin to conventional
pedestrian fantasy prose not at all. Though Yoda pleased would be.
I
exaggerate a little. Occasional English-standard constructions obtrude
from the quivering larval mass of jerky cadence, though verb choice
often ungraceful, malapropos. Distracting. Fragmentary sentences.
Plot
formulaic, fantasy romance. Characters underdeveloped. Emotional
investment nil. Predictable. Not the worst book, this year. The Cloud Roads
gets that honor, dubious. Waste of time, however. Couldn't get into it.
Not at all. Forever took to read. Done with it, glad to be.
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