18. Blood of Amber

by Roger Zelazny (215 pgs)

Rating: 3

Merle begins the book imprisoned in a cave of mysterious blue crystal. He quickly frees himself from that situation though and continues the quest to resolve the mystery involving one murdered girlfriend, a mysterious blue mist, and a college friend.

I found my attention wandering through Blood of Amber. I have a very hard time feeling emotionally invested in the main character. Perversely, Merle is a very attractive character who should be really interesting...yet he seems static. The events of the book were interesting and I'm intrigued about how it ended but I feel rather ambivalent about the book as a whole.