Jurjen
The Faith of Beasts is an incredibly successful sequel to The Mercy of Gods, and has got me really excited to see how Franck and Abraham wrap the trilogy up in the final book in The Captive's War trilogy.
This installment basically does everything I wanted it to after b1. It advances the character work, setting and plot in really interesting and satisfying, with tons of surprises spersed in. I particularly enjoyed the story's musings on the conflict between rejecting oppression vs trying to make the best of it, in a setting with so much immediate seemingly arbitrary violence.
Learning more and more about how the Carryx think, and how their society is structured was great–they really do feel alien. Seeing the Carryx in a great amount of detail contrasted at just the faintest hints of the deathless enemy is also a cool way to frame the wider conflict of this story.
Overall I have no notes and no complaints. Really not a lot to critique about The Faith of Beasts. This series is very different to The Expanse, but I think it's just as good, if not better.
The Faith of Beasts is an incredibly successful sequel to The Mercy of Gods, and has got me really excited to see how Franck and Abraham wrap the trilogy up in the final book in The Captive's War trilogy.
This installment basically does everything I wanted it to after b1. It advances the character work, setting and plot in really interesting and satisfying, with tons of surprises spersed in. I particularly enjoyed the story's musings on the conflict between rejecting oppression vs trying to make the best of it, in a setting with so much immediate seemingly arbitrary violence.
Learning more and more about how the Carryx think, and how their society is structured was great–they really do feel alien. Seeing the Carryx in a great amount of detail contrasted at just the faintest hints of the deathless enemy is also a cool way to frame the wider conflict of this story.
Overall I have no notes and no complaints. Really not a lot to critique about The Faith of Beasts. This series is very different to The Expanse, but I think it's just as good, if not better.