Red Moon and Black Mountain

This is a tough one to review. I started out not liking it but loved the ending. The story felt derivative, although this book was first published in 1970 by the same publisher of JRR Tolkien. It kind of had the feel of a cross between Narnia and Lord of the Rings and an old pulp fantasy novel, which is probably why Allen & Unwin published it. It's written well and the world building is very good. I thought the end was tremendous. It just didn't sit right with me for the first half of it. This book won the second Mythopoeic Award in 1972, the year after it was published here in the States.

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