Sign of the Unicorn by Roger Zelazny

Remember when I mentioned the hefty mystery building in Guns of Avalon? I wrote that book report after reading this one. One of Corwin's brothers is mysteriously killed, and most of his subjects expect he did it. So he assembles all of his remaining siblings and talk about everything that's happened so far and what it probably means, using the device of this mystery to better explain everything to us readers.

It's interesting, seeing how the princes and princesses of Amber are all godly beings in our shadow worlds, but this is a book in which nothing really happens. There's a lot of talking, and telling of past stories, new to us, in which exciting things happen. There are even some stabbings and murder-plotting, a refreshing take on a fantasy novel. But it did bore me a little, despite its lack of everything I dislike in a fantasy novel.