The Serpent Sea
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Ratings31
Average rating4
Moon, once a solitary wanderer, has become consort to Jade, sister queen of the Indigo Cloud court. Together, they travel with their people on a pair of flying ships in hopes of finding a new home for their colony. Moon finally feels like he’s found a tribe where he belongs. But when the travelers reach the ancestral home of Indigo Cloud, shrouded within the trunk of a mountain-sized tree, they discover a blight infecting its core. Nearby they find the remains of the invaders who may be responsible, as well as evidence of a devastating theft. This discovery sends Moon and the hunters of Indigo Cloud on a quest for the heartstone of the tree — a quest that will lead them far away, across the Serpent Sea. In this followup to The Cloud Roads, Martha Wells returns with a world-spanning odyssey, a mystery that only provokes more questions — and the adventure of a lifetime.
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Martha Wells is an excellent world builder. This is a fun setting (a world, on a leviathan!) and some interesting cultural clashes between the different groups in their world and a very nice metaphor about what different communities need to be sustainable and thrive. The Rift plot didn't work that well for me, and I wish there were more development of many of the metaplot questions raised in the first book. Solid 3.5 stars
This is the second book in the Books of the Raksura series. The winged shapeshifter Moon and his usual cohorts find themselves searching for the thieves of a vitally important artefact to his Indigo Cloud court. This search takes them over the Serpent Sea to an exceedingly strange island. Once there, things get really interesting. I find this world and this series fascinating and fun.
Series
4 primary books10 released booksThe Books of the Raksura is a 11-book series with 4 primary works first released in 2011 with contributions by C.L. Werner and Martha Wells.
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