6/26 -- Lloyd Alexander's "The Iron Ring"

Lloyd Alexander has written a number of one-shot fantasy novels that incorporate elements of several different classical mythologies. The first of these that I encountered was The Arkadians, his foray into the world of Greek mythology, in the same summer than I first conceived The Silence. The Iron Ring is his take on the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, and while it never quite escapes the tropes and conventions that populate Alexander’s work, it nevertheless manages to satisfyingly plunge from light and carefree to dark and violent (though never really gritty or realistic) in the same way his Westmark trilogy does.

Also, this self imposed hundred word limit might be a tad too hindering--there's much more I could say about this text. Nevertheless, perhaps shorter reviews will inspire me to more quickly complete books, movies, and games in order to comment upon them!