Throy-Jack Vance novel, book review
Throy-Jack Vance novel AKA: Cadwal Chronicles Book 3 Throy was first published in 1992 so is one of Vance's later works. My hardcover copy is 248 pages, making it significantly shorter than the first two novels in the series The Cadwal Chronicles which were 554 pages and 326 pages each respectively. Although Throy is worth reading if one has read the other two novels, it is for me the weakest of the three in the series. It does not have the fascinating world building, complex plot and interesting character development of the brilliantly written Araminta Station nor does it have the mystery, suspense, drama and intriguing investigative work that is in Ecce and Old Earth. Throy does, however, provide a satisfactory conclusion to the trilogy, and anybody who has read the first two novels will certainly want to read it. After our two main characters, Glawen Clattuc and Wayness Tamm, finally find the lost original Charter, The Naturalist Society is taken ove...