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Gets better as the series goes on
This was a very confusing book to me, it's advertised as Books of the Cataclysm Two. I read it immediately after finishing book one, yet it read like it was part of a completely different series, one that the reader would be familiar with. Since neither the dust jacket or the title pages mention other books, as far as I knew The Crooked letter was the first and only book set in this world.After finishing The Blood Debt today I did some research and discovered that Williams had written a prior tr...
I would have given this book a higher review. I wanted to. I've been enjoying the series a lot so far (despite accidentally finding myself reading it backwards..which surprisingly seems to work well for some reason). My rating would have been 5/5 stars - if it hadn't been for the obnoxious couple: Sal & Shilly. I don't know how many more times I could have taken reading: 'Sal found Shilly's hand'. We get it. They're that overly infatuated, eye-roll worthy, PDA-ridden couple that -everybody- has
The First Book of the Cataclysm, The Blood Debt, was one of the best books I read last year, and I'd been looking forward to reading the Second Book. I was startled to find that it was, in many respects, completely different from the first book, though excellent in its own right. While I miss the nightmarish landscapes and the urgency of the first book, I came to really appreciate the world that the author has built for the sequel. This is a world that he's obviously told stories in before, and
Ultimately, I would say I liked this book a lot better than the first, mostly because the snoretastic Castillo twins are at a minimum. For the most part the characters are way better too, much more fleshed out than in the first one. Oh, and it's funnier. However, I did kind of feel like I missed an entire book by not knowing about Sal, Shilly and Skender until like, the end of the book. And I feel like I didn't have a real handle on how the world worked until the end of the book either, and that...
Yes, The Crooked Letter was most definitely a sort of book of Genesis/creation story for this series. I can see how it would feel a bit superfluous to an average fantasy fan. It could have been simply glossed over in a summation.I, however, felt it was bold and original, and I felt more of a connection/attachment to this new universe going into this second book. I especially appreciate that it didn't pick up directly following the conclusion of the cataclysm but rather around 1000 years later so...
As much as I loved the first book and this one, I don't understand why Mr. Williams completely changed the way he writes between the two novels. You can tell that they are linked, but when I started the first paragraph I actually checked to make sure I was reading the correct novel. Beside the different writing styles, the story is fantastic. I love that we are thrown into the middle of an epic story with adventures alluded to, but not explained. The reader is drawn into a world that may seem bi...
Good at the end, but at times I found myself having to remember who was who, and what I just read. A surprise towards the end that for me tied the first book (The Crooked Letter) characters with the second book. The storyline really pulled through towards the end! Now I am looking forward to the next book.
I wish I would have read the first one. I think I missed some important stuff and would have liked it better.
There's too much book here for the quantity of plot. The book ends pretty well, but the opening drags through well past the middle.
