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4.01 AVERAGE
4.01 AVERAGE
Good gried
I cannot express how much I love reading these books. I laugh out loud so many times. I love the characters, can't wait for the next one
I cannot express how much I love reading these books. I laugh out loud so many times. I love the characters, can't wait for the next one
Again another fantastically underrated fantasy story filled with laugh out loud moments and clever character dialogue that makes the story engaging and the characters genuinely likeable.
The setting of this book is astoundingly original. I went into it thinking of it being an epic battle at sea with pirates and the occasional Kraken, never did I think it would take the turn it did and plummet me into a world I doubt I could have conjured in my wildest dreams.
However, this book did confuse me a little as it breaks the tropes of following ex amount of key characters throughout the sequels. in the first book we came to know and enjoy the loveable bumbling guard Durham. The entire book centres around him, uses him to move the main plot forward and is our anchor of normality in the troupe of specialised Dwarven Dungeoneers. I spent the first few chapters of this books waiting for him to come into the spot light again. It doesn't happen. He's not even a secondary character, he's a background player, replaced with at least three characters to fill his spot. It's just a little jarring and I hope it's not yet another reshuffle for the next book. We do keep Thud and Ginny as our well known main characters but it just felt a little awkward without Durham, a character we were encouraged to grow to enjoy being around even if he tended to lose his trousers and make a prat of himself on occasion.
Over all a good read and you don't necessarily need to have read the first book to enjoy this one. The business with the first book is all but put aside after the first few chapters and then you are in to an entirely new venture.
Asides from the disconcerting party reshuffle this is a solid book and one I'll definitely be reading (well...listening to) again.
The setting of this book is astoundingly original. I went into it thinking of it being an epic battle at sea with pirates and the occasional Kraken, never did I think it would take the turn it did and plummet me into a world I doubt I could have conjured in my wildest dreams.
However, this book did confuse me a little as it breaks the tropes of following ex amount of key characters throughout the sequels. in the first book we came to know and enjoy the loveable bumbling guard Durham. The entire book centres around him, uses him to move the main plot forward and is our anchor of normality in the troupe of specialised Dwarven Dungeoneers. I spent the first few chapters of this books waiting for him to come into the spot light again. It doesn't happen. He's not even a secondary character, he's a background player, replaced with at least three characters to fill his spot. It's just a little jarring and I hope it's not yet another reshuffle for the next book. We do keep Thud and Ginny as our well known main characters but it just felt a little awkward without Durham, a character we were encouraged to grow to enjoy being around even if he tended to lose his trousers and make a prat of himself on occasion.
Over all a good read and you don't necessarily need to have read the first book to enjoy this one. The business with the first book is all but put aside after the first few chapters and then you are in to an entirely new venture.
Asides from the disconcerting party reshuffle this is a solid book and one I'll definitely be reading (well...listening to) again.
Yet more fun from the Dungeoneers. The strengths of these books are the characters and the dialogue, and that has gotten even better in this book than in the last. Thud's keen practicality, the Dungeoneers' can-do acceptance of just about any catastrophe or hopeless situation, and even Laughing Larry's hate/hate relationship with his murderous parrot were all great fun to read. We also got to know a little bit more about the Dungeoneers themselves, as individuals, which was really welcome.
Where the book fell down, I felt, was the problem-setting and problem-solving bits of the plot. The ending had some great set-pieces in it, but I felt the solution was too simple and came too quickly. Also, the main antagonists...never really got more than the most slap-dash of coats of attention to make them anything but set-pieces themselves. I didn't feel like I knew what they were thinking or even why some of them teamed up in the first place. In going back, some questions as to why characters acted the way they did still stay unanswered, and that's unsatisfying enough for me to dock off a star.
None of this will keep me from continuing to follow the series, though, or waiting for the next book.
Where the book fell down, I felt, was the problem-setting and problem-solving bits of the plot. The ending had some great set-pieces in it, but I felt the solution was too simple and came too quickly. Also, the main antagonists...never really got more than the most slap-dash of coats of attention to make them anything but set-pieces themselves. I didn't feel like I knew what they were thinking or even why some of them teamed up in the first place. In going back, some questions as to why characters acted the way they did still stay unanswered, and that's unsatisfying enough for me to dock off a star.
None of this will keep me from continuing to follow the series, though, or waiting for the next book.
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated