We find our favorite bad about Don Benvenuto. Don Benvenuto hitman become master spy at the Podesta Ducatore, gathering even more trouble than social status rises. In nearly 1,000 pages devour Don Benvenuto will be: jail (several times), torture (also) disfigured (badly and painfully) and betrayed (we lost count). But Don Benvenuto will also drink, play, rape, murder (including the Kill Bill) and betrayal (difficult to count, it does not stop to change his mind at the last moment).
Do not let's take the stone to Don Benvenuto, it fits. After all it is surrounded by rotten from his boss, the Machiavellian Leonide Ducatore, to nearby enemy homes. The only one who dares to advocate virtues like honesty is perceived as weak and laughable naivety. It is a world of schemers (politicians and killers) and warriors. The feminine presence is almost nonexistent, except for a damsel speaking as a rude teen twenty-first century (I did not appreciate at all, given its environment it should have had a more refined language, this would not have prevented tell of horrors, see Merteuil in Dangerous Liaisons) and an enchanting little too human. Some might think that the author has a grudge against women given the perception that he shows and the fate that is made (both expected and completely unexpected in a chapter dedicated to the damsel clarissima), but it n ' is that the perception of Don Benvenuto (the novel is written in first person) and the time. The collection of stories Janua Vera also demonstrates the fallacy of that impression.
The history of Winning the War is the story of a relentless pursuit of power by the Ducatore, by all means. Machiavelli side, Teddy. And accordingly, since Benvenuto is related to him, it is the story of Benvenuto and especially its survival.
It is located in a very kingdom Italy seventeenth, with a very Roman government. There are dwarves and elves, but the author does not make much. There are also practitioners of black magic sorcerers and practitioners of magic more enchanting live, but in the end seem to pursue the same goals just as rotten.
The pace is both quiet (we can stay on the same action for 100 pages) and furious (since pitfalls are constantly arriving). The characters are hair-raising Machiavellianism and absolutely devoid of morality. So much so that the characters ultimately are not credible. I had the impression of living in a huge video game. Addictive and entertaining, but a video game. It is the weakness of the novel from the major Anglo-Saxon (Martin first course), but as a reader I'm incredibly amused. And I felt that the writer had also wildly fun creating the universe and the characters described. Sometimes (very French temptation) it seems more watch what he writes what the characters do, but writing is beautiful.
I particularly liked the pages devoted to the meeting between Benvenuto and a bed (here had not happened to him for a long time), "the cool sheets, the softness of the mattress, the fluffy comforter embrace, caress the pillow, all of you hard comfortable moans! [...] I was driving me in the pod, I prélassai in torpor, I kissed the pillow, I wiped the bench! [...] But then, at home, too lazy crisis is symmetric flame I feel for a new mistress [...] I had some vague restless legs. Bouchonnaient my sheets, my pillow was digging. The furniture and I, we still had pretty matelassières prospects but the beautiful passion was over. "
Recommended for all lovers of fantasy and beautiful writing. Attention to sensitive souls, there are some passages of particularly painful torture, but the author knows fortunately dosing effect.
