Melody Murray's Books

You can't go home again. I adored these books when I was a kid. Read 'em over and over. I remember being furious with Zelazny for his cliff-hanger endings as the last few trickled out. And I remember thinking the quality was declining as the series lengthened. What I didn't remember, or what I was too caught up in plot to notice, is that the writing isn't very good. There are long passages of hellride that are, frankly, hell to read. Corwin's parentage kept changing- in the first book, he's explicitly a full brother of Random and not Eric, in the second, he and Eric are full brothers, in the fourth, Eric has one mom, Corwin a different one, and Random another still. I fully admit to skimming this time through. I hope that the memory of this re-read will fade and leave me with the warm, nostalgic love of the series with which I picked up this omnibus last week. I'm sorry I picked it up. Four stars for nostalgia, two for this time through.