Justin Lee Anderson
Autor(a) de The Lost War: Eidyn Book One
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- Sexo
- male
- Locais de residência
- Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 5
- Membros
- 181
- Popularidade
- #119,336
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Resenhas
- 5
- ISBNs
- 15
Absolutely bloody brilliant! Excellent character work. High stakes. Hard choices. Emotional rollercoaster.
Warning! Avoid book one ending spoilers like a plague. It will ruin your reading experience. This review will be as vague about what happened as possible.
I must admit that while the first book was very good all the way through, it was the ending that made it into an amazing one. Therefore, knowing that book two was unlikely to come up with something like that again, I felt a bit worried if it would live up to its prequel. I needn't have feared because it not only lived up to it, but in my mind, it completely took over the spotlight. It was an amazing book not only at the ending (which was spectacular by the way) but all the way through.
Following the events of the end of The Lost War, our group of adventurers is faced with a seemingly insurmountable challenge. The stakes are sky high. I had to take breaks reading this book because of how tense it was. Obviously, such an atmosphere had an impact on our adventurers.
This is where the book truly shines. The characters really came alive when faced with impossible decisions. And of course, where there are decisions to be made, there are different opinions that eventually start clashing. The tenuous bonds that the group has made over their shared quest start to fracture. Especially when some morally grey choices have to be made.
The biggest focus was still on Aranok, and Samily also received a lot of attention, but Nirea came into the spotlight. She was probably the most generic character of the whole group in the prequel but this time the author really took care to develop her character.
I will cut this review short to keep it spoiler-free. If it sounds at all interesting, check out the prequel review where I go more into detail: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5931581506
This has been my top read of 2023. I will be eagerly waiting for the next two books in the series.
P.S. Thank you Justin Lee Anderson for providing us with a nice in-world recap. Although, personally, I will be re-reading the whole series before both of the upcoming sequels, anyway.
I received an ARC for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.… (mais)