![]() ![]() WHY would you take a magical singing semi-mermaid sea captain and have her trek overland for the whole book only to deus ex gambit her back into the sea right at the end of the book? This book tries to do all of that, but mostly it had me asking “why” a lot. It’s hard to fit them in that sweet spot where they keep the story going and introduce just enough newness while reinforcing everything the first book did. Part of it is that middles of trilogies are tricky. This, the second in the series, didn’t really ring any bells no matter how hard I mentally begged it to. The first installment, Black Sun, established the characters, displayed some truly brilliant, epic world-building, but the story was just okay. This series, set in a world based on pre-Columbian South American cultures, follows a clash between age-old forces of light and dark and should be right up my alley.Īnd it is, in a way. ![]() I love fantasy that steps away from the hoary old medieval Europe tropes. I wanted to love this book because of what it is. ![]()
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