Jak
Bought this from a local bookstore in Colorado Springs when we were visiting some friends, along with a copy of the first book (The Traitor Baru Cormorant). I wanted to get the physical copies of the books so I could more easily flip to the map in the front few pages (it sucks trying to look at the map in ebook format), and also to support the author. The book itself is pretty good, in terms of being a follow-up to the first, with more hopping around a bit more in terms of the POV characters and writing style. I really liked how certain connections weren't shoved in your face, so I felt clever figuring them out on my own (e.g. Calcanish was actually Hesychast). However, the ending was slightly disappointing, since it felt like so many plot threads were brought up during the book and none of them really get resolved aside from "Baru finally finds the Cancrioth". Hopefully a lot of this is resolved in the next book, but still, it was a bit of a letdown when I got to the end and realized how few things were actually settled.
Bought this from a local bookstore in Colorado Springs when we were visiting some friends, along with a copy of the first book (The Traitor Baru Cormorant). I wanted to get the physical copies of the books so I could more easily flip to the map in the front few pages (it sucks trying to look at the map in ebook format), and also to support the author. The book itself is pretty good, in terms of being a follow-up to the first, with more hopping around a bit more in terms of the POV characters and writing style. I really liked how certain connections weren't shoved in your face, so I felt clever figuring them out on my own (e.g. Calcanish was actually Hesychast). However, the ending was slightly disappointing, since it felt like so many plot threads were brought up during the book and none of them really get resolved aside from "Baru finally finds the Cancrioth". Hopefully a lot of this is resolved in the next book, but still, it was a bit of a letdown when I got to the end and realized how few things were actually settled.