The Wizard - The Wizard Knight, Book Two

Gene Wolfe

Tor Books

2005

480 páginas

16h 0m

ISBN-10: 0765314703

The Wizard is the sequel of my previously reviewed novel by Gene Wolfe, The Knight, concluding Wolfe’s latest offering the two-part Wizard/Knight cycle. After concluding my reading of the The Wizard, and thus Wolfe’s story, I must say it’s very hard to not come away extremely impressed with the series as a whole, in terms of reading enjoyment, continued admiration for Gene Wolfe’s truly superior prose, and the format he chooses to relay the continuing adventures of the series focal character Sir Able of the High Heart. When reading The Wizard, and the series in its entirety, the reader is not just reading a terrific example of an admittedly rehashed concept to take space on the shelves with others that share the same mold, but also reading a novel written by a truly gifted writer who not only obviously understands the past precedence of the concept itself, but in fact relishes in it while weaving the concept and relaying it with original elements in a way very few writers in my opinion could succeed in attempting to at the level Mr. Wolfe successfully achieves. Very few writers truly have such seemingly command of their story’s narration, along with an understanding and confidence in their ability to captivate readers regardless how uneventful a scene may with which can only be described by this humble reviewer as his true mastery of the English language.