Julia
Chaska
A review of this — 1 year ago
What if death, time, fate, war, nature, evil and good were not mere concepts but offices held by actual people, like any other occupation?
When Mym, the son of a rajah, grows tired of his father’s manipulations in his relationships, he opts out of his life in order to become Mars, the immortal Incarnation of War. In this new position his job is to supervise the significant warlike activities occurring in the world. Although he’s morally opposed to such needless violence and suffering and initially hopes to use his office as a means of alleviating and lessening the destruction and misery war causes, Mym reluctantly comes to accept that war is a natural and fluctuating, if unpleasant, state of humanity.
Like the few preceding it, Wielding a Red Sword doesn’t quite hold up to On a Pale Horse, the first book in this series. As usual, the characters are painfully two-dimensional.
