The Ashes of Tomorrow

Well that kinda sucked. 1.5/2 Stars.

The first half of the book is a snooze fest one can only endure with skimming and skipping. We are in book 2, we should be done with the setup by now.
Halfway through the book it get's to a solid 3.5/5 stars and sharply drops off near the end.
There are too many characters, too many storylines, too many ppl who want to talk to each other, too many ppl the author wants to give some room to breathe.
The book is constantly switching context, jumping around form one place to another to another to another and back, often every 2 or 3 pages, which never let me really get into the book, minus a few very cool scenes/dialogues.

There is hardly any new development, just the one thing that happens near the end, the rest is just characters eating each other for the first time.

I don't think the author pulled it off, I hope David Mack brings it home with book 3.