Blood of Innocents
(Sorcery Ascendant #2)
by Mitchell Hogan
fantasy
copyright 2013
read in December 2019
rated 8/10: really quite good
This is a direct follow-on from book one. Again, the ending is satisfactory but inconclusive. Plenty of plot threads still wide open (how long will his girlfriend remain uncured?), just a small number closed off. At this stage -- it doesn't matter.
A lot happens. Ideas which were referred to in book one are met and explored in book two. The world is still growing... Not with sudden and unexpected new developments but with more detail of book one hints. This is good! The author's wealth of original ideas is not yet exhausted.
Which does lead to a worry: will the series ever "conclude"? Not that I want it to conclude, I want more :-) I hope that there is -- or will be -- an ultimate end when I can sit back, sigh, and say, Well, that was a great story :-) No sign of that yet...
Did you notice: my rating is better for this book than for book one. That's deliberate, this is a better book. Surprise :-) Book one is worth reading, book two has more meat, more explored ideas, more feeling of "going somewhere".
I'm looking forward to finding out where that "somewhere" will be :-)
Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
... Agamedes Consulting / Problems ? Solved
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