In an old interview, Bakker stated that while writing Neuropath he itched to get back to writing fantasy. Yet he also spoke of some exhaustion in writing such long books, and that same exhaustion is starting to show in The White-Luck Warrior.
He continues to keep a small stable of adjectives that he bandies out pretty often, but more than anything are vague grammatical and stylistic ticks. Like his insistence that "dual" can be taken to mean "duel." Or so it seems in sentences like "So much of the Gnostic armoury was devoted to sorcerous duals or the mass killing of mundane Men..." Perhaps this is yet another thing I've missed in the Prince of Nothing trilogy, and "dual" is just an unknown to me variation of "duel."
Nonetheless, it's hard to be a weary reader as Bakker ends this volume with an underground battle with the ancient father of dragons, Wutteรคt.
I still have to read the final few pages, but it looks like Achamian won't be coming out of this with that hard sought map to the ancient Dunyain settlement Ishual.
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