Book Review: To Ride Hell’s Chasm by Janny Wurts
Cover art illustrated by: Janny Wurts
To Ride Hell’s Chasm by Janny Wurts
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Series: Standalone
Genre: Fantasy, Epic Fantasy
Pages: 704 pages (Mass market paperback edition)
Published: 1st January 2002 by Harper Voyager
A great fantasy standalone that will make you know how it feels to live for five days in a fantasy world.
This is the first time I read Janny Wurts’s solo work; prior to this, I’ve read The Riftwar: Empire trilogy that Wurts co-write with Raymond E. Feist within this year. The Riftwar: Empire trilogy, to me, has become one of my favorite trilogies; I am stunned that it took me this long to finally get around to reading that trilogy. Janny Wurts is often well known for her work on Riftwar: Empire trilogy and her magnum opus: Wars of Light and Shadow. I’m fully intended to read her magnum opus but before I get around to reading Wars of Light and Shadow, I thought it might be better for me to read her standalone novel first. The reason behind this is that many fans of her works have mentioned that it’s better to read To Ride Hell’s Chasm first to get an idea of Wurts’s prose, which is significantly more difficult than the one in The Riftwar: Empire trilogy, and they’re not wrong on this. I will talk about this more in the review below.
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