Cynnamon's Reviews > Weaveworld

In this book Clive Barker shows himself as his typical verbose, descriptive imaginative self.

Which is a good thing. Mostly. His ideas are often very unusual and surprising, his descriptions (especially of landscapes) are extremely convincing and I don’t remember any antagonist in a novel that I found as repulsive right from the start as the antagonists in this book.

On the less positive side I found this book really promising at the beginning and was full of expectation, but around halftime when I was still waiting for the actual story to begin, I realized that this was the actual story already and things started to become tedious.

So for my taste Barker described too few events far too extensively (in an excellent way, but still) and somehow this made me lose interest. Also the protagonists were lacking development and therefore turned out to be a bit of a bore.

I was still hoping for the end to be overwhelming, but after a really short climax the book more or less just ends…

So, even though I really like Clive Barker’s writing a lot, this book is only worth 3 stars for me. Still a good book, but a bit on the draggy side.