Review: Elric of Melniboné

Elric of Melniboné by Michael Moorcock
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

For anyone who looks at the dates read can see it only took me two days to read this. Granted I rushed through it so I could be finished with it before my Christmas vacation, but I still couldn't wait to be done with it. It's not a long read, nor did I found it to be a particularly engaging one. It might be that the book hasn't aged well, but you'd think that a book that has around five million entries in its series, you'd think I would find something special about it. It's not bad, just surprisingly meh.

I think my turn off is that the tone of the book is grandiose without being grand. There's an unearned heart to the book that seems to believe you should hang on every word without those words actually being good. If that makes any damn sense. To be fair, I might not be explaining it well. I'd say you have to read it to maybe understand what I'm saying, but I wouldn't recommend that. Just take my word is that this is a book you can probably skip. Or you might have worse reads if you have literally nothing else to read for a couple of days.

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