Heir of Fire
(Throne of Glass #3)
by Sarah J Maas
chicklit, fantasy
copyright 2014
read in May 2021
rated 8/10: really quite good
On the back cover of this book it says, A Throne of Glass Novel. Yes, that's what it is. Not really a third volume in the Throne sage. More a brand new novel set in the Throne world.
Okay, it follows the action from book two. And it leads (by all indications) into the action of book four. Yet it may as well be a book entirely on its own.
The heroine is in a new country. A new continent. She lives and fights in new places. She meets new friends and new enemies, she fights with and against characters who were never mentioned in the earlier books. Well, barely mentioned.
It's a whole new adventure.
And yet... The new adventure is tied -- narrowly but definitely -- to the previous Throne books. Better yet, the new adventure is complete in itself.
The heroine is isolated from previous friends. She fights a war -- while her friends advance their own stories. The heroine's war is self-contained, yet it advances the overall plot of the series.
Overall plot? Yes, there is such a thing. Yet I had barely begun reading before I realised, This story will never end. Certainly not in this book. Possibly never. This book -- the series -- has developed into a never-ending soap opera.
And yet... The major battle (war?) is sufficient for a complete novel. There is enough novelty, enough of a complete plot, for this book to be read as a standalone novel... But don't. Read from book one. Enjoy the heroine's journey. Enjoy the complex plotting all round. Enjoy the sudden expansion of people and places in this book. It can be read alone. It is better as another book in an ongoing saga.
Better. And really quite good.
Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
... Agamedes Consulting / Problems ? Solved
==="No matter how much you push the envelope, it will still be stationery"
Dying for you to read my blog, at https://notdotdeaddotyet.blogspot.com/ :-)
No comments:
Post a Comment