mikey

I enjoyed this one. It was however much darker, filled with loss and anticipation of loss.

It confirmed a suspicion I've had since Book 1 that Carl and Donut will be forced to sacrifice someone towards the end or turn on one another. Early on they mention if a crawler gets far enough they can rule over their own planet, that immediately gave me a sense of king of the hill (even if you can take a deal to exit before then).

It ends with a twist that I found somewhat annoying, involving the Crown of Sepsis.

It was fun. Vol 1 is quite short. I found the action scenes a bit meh.

This was a daunting but captivating journey through this Everest tragedy.

The ending with the updated post script is a cautionary tale for everyone to consider carefully how you resolve conflict with others, a sad detail to end an already sad recounting. To be fair to Jon I don't think the retaliatory novel was in as good faith as claimed by Annatoli.

Each chapter started with quotes that I wish were woven more into the recounting rather than dropped in off to the side.

I also occasionally found some word choices a bit strange.

The anarchists cook book introduced some much needed intrigue I felt the previous book was missing.

Silly fun. Apparently 'number goes up' is addictive to listen to as well as play.