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Fantasy Literature
| Greg Hersom
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Review Rating: 90
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Enge is one of those rare authors whose style and prose is perfect for a fantasy -- he has that ability to create language that sounds archaic but is still understandable and flows like a bard's tale.
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Strange Horizons
| William Mingin
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Review Rating: 80
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There's a kind of literately sensuous pleasure in Enge's writing--not so much sentence by sentence, of the sort found in Shakespeare, Mervyn Peake, and Raymond Chandler--to pick a wide range--but in his storytelling, including his writing per se, his sense of humor, his cleverness, and his power of invention.
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Graemes Fantasy Book Review
| Graeme Flory
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Review Rating: 78
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'Blood of Ambrose' is worth sticking with but I came away with the feeling that it didn't need to make itself so difficult to get into.
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Boomtron
| dragonwomant
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Review Rating: 60
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Blood of Ambrose ends conclusively, making it a fine stand-alone novel for someone who wishes to dabble in high fantasy without having to commit to a many-volumes-long series.
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SFRevu
| Mel Jacob
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Review Rating: 60
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James Enge interweaves two coming of age stories: one of the three-hundred-year old wizard Morelock Ambrosius and the other of King Lathmar VII, a boy of twelve, in his novel Blood of Ambrose.
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sffworld.com
| Rob H. Bedford
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Review Rating: 40
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the novel didn't live up to my expectations as highly as I hoped, but still had enjoyable elements and flashes of coolness.
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