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5.0 out of 5 stars
amazing story set in the time of Alexander the Great,
This review is from: Road and the Hills Pb Book 1 (A Walk in the Dark) (Paperback)
I randomly picked this book up many years ago when I was in high school and on vacation with my family in England. I grew up reading fantasy and am still a huge fan, especially of books featuring strong female characters which this features. This is an alternate version of the Alexander the Great story, set in a different world than ours but at a similar time. In this version there is a girl, "Ailix", that joins up with the army and eventually meets its Alexander. They proceed to have all sorts of adventures. It is the amazing writing, particularly the character dialogue interweaving that caught my attention and kept it throughout. The author has a extremely deft way of conveying all the subtleties and underlying tensions in human interactions and developing the characters. I loved this book and reread many many times over the years while looking for the second and third books of this trilogy. Unfortunately the plot and storytelling declined with those two but the first book definitely can stand on its own with no problems. My recommendation is to read this one, enjoy it and don't bother with the others. Maybe I built up too many expectations over the years of waiting and rereading and imagining but they were a definite let-down when I finally got a hold of them.
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