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3.73 AVERAGE
3.73 AVERAGE
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Torn between 3 and 3.5, so I'm going with a 3 for now.
Sometimes the narrative style feels lyrical, and sometimes it feels disjointed and broken. Sometimes it made wonderful sense, sometimes I had no idea what was going on. Suuuuch a cliffhanger ending! Guess I'm definitely reading the last book in the series. I do really love the treatment of utopia and dystopia in this series.
Sometimes the narrative style feels lyrical, and sometimes it feels disjointed and broken. Sometimes it made wonderful sense, sometimes I had no idea what was going on. Suuuuch a cliffhanger ending! Guess I'm definitely reading the last book in the series. I do really love the treatment of utopia and dystopia in this series.
Second in a trilogy. Not as good as the first, but a nice read.
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I continue to enjoy Tanaquil and her peeve and their adventures, and Lee's writing continues to be quite lovely. I've got the third waiting for me.
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Enjoyed how this novel mirrored black unicorn. Liked some of the characters - Lizra felt like she had hidden depths only shallowly fleshed out by Tanaquil's limited POV - and found others (Worabex) to do deux ex machina things. Liked Honj as a character but found his relationship to Tanaquil rather inexplicable
This would be the downturn in a trilogy, the one where everything you thought was good and pure about the first book becomes its opposite, the one where our heroine has to do some hefty soul searching, the one where Vader tells you that he's your father. (Ok, he doesn't but you know where we're at now.) There's a lot of stifling inaction and festering passivity, which is less fun to read compared to the first book, but hey, that's how these plots work themselves out sometimes. The payoff comes in the third installment.