Book Review: Nine Princes in Amber

A year ago, a local used-book store had a sale on sci-fi and fantasy. (They may have said just sci-fi, but I'd quibble with that designation here.) I chose this in addition to The Ship Who Searched, mainly because I'd heard of Roger Zelazny but never read him. The Internet confirmed that this first volume of his best-known work, The Chronicles of Amber, was popular enough for me to try.

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OK, my current read, Matthew Pearl's The Poe Shadow, may not be a good choice for breaking from darkness. It's just not dark epic fantasy.