Rediscovered Classics: Jack of Shadows (Series #23) (Paperback)

from Lyndatrue

Not my favorite work by Zelazny; it's a world inhabited by reason (the daylight side of the earth) and magic (the night). We don't really have a satisfactory answer as to why the earth no longer rotates, and sadly, I prefer answers. The language is rich, the characters engaging, but I think this ...

from Al-G

The old saying goes that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, But Zelazny raises the question in this book, does power corrupt or does power simply reveal what was already there. Is power the light that reveals what lurks in the shadows? Zelazny's tale of the thief who breaks th...

from questbird

An early Zelazny but still a goodie. I'm a bit surprised that it seems to be out of print. The world is very interesting. One side is blasted by eternal sunlight, inhabited by the technocratic Daysiders, and the other is shrouded in eternal night; the dwelling of the sorcerous many-lived Nightsid...

from iftyzaidi

This is one of Zelazny's earlier and less well known works, though upon reading it, its apparent that to relegate it as a 'B' list work is to do it a disservice. It is short and perhaps not as well paced as some of his other books, but once it gets going it captures the immagination. The main cha...

from TadAD

I waffled between 3½ and 4 stars on this one. The characters are right up there with Zelazny's best, but I think the plot isn't quite as strong as something like Lord of Light. The plot concept is completely unique.