Very much worth your time.įairyLoot Edition!! And then them put together to show the scythe! But (and this is a really important note) while the ziggs the book took were surprising, they were always sensible and fit smoothly into the overall narrative and world. I'm pretty good at anticipating where a story is going to go, and these books constantly zigged when I expected them to zag. The other thing that really stands out is the fact that the books are unpredictable without being irritating or disappointing. And personally, I'm a big fan of complexity. Both in the characters, the plot, and in its morality. But it has a lot more complexity than I'd originally expected. (Honestly, I probably wouldn't have talked about it here at all if it ended as a train wreck.) Meaning that you can read the series confident that you aren't going to get screwed by some 'it was all just a dream' bullshit, or something to that effect showing up in the last book.

I'm happy to say that this multi-volume work rounds out very nicely. And as anyone who ever watched the Matrix movies knows, the final part of a trilogy can, in effect, go back in time and ruin the previous otherwise enjoyable story.

The big issue with a multi-volume story is how the *whole* thing wraps up. (Because a series is different than a multi-volume story.) And it's not just whether or not the books work well as a series. When I'm starting a big multi-volume story, one of the big concerns isn't just if the individual books are good.

Morning star review pierce brown