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4.25 AVERAGE
4.25 AVERAGE
adventurous
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Impressive! A intriguing second book (I did love the first much more) and an interesting turn of events... Onward to book three!
adventurous
emotional
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Incredible continuation of Senlin’s story. I have grown to love the entire crew and I cannot wait to see the resolution of their characters in the future books in the series. The plot is non-stop and the prose is so beautiful.
“In a thousand years, when the last human work was taken over by an automatic engine, would it conclude the liberation or the enslavement of the race?”
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I discovered this series looking for sky pirates for reddit bingo and man, it's super weird and twisty and the characters are all wonderfully complex. There's quite a bit more female character POV than in book 2 and huge chunks pass the Bechdel test, which is always a pleasant surprise from a male author.
Well, that was stressful. It's like the higher you go the weirder it gets.
Love the tiny bits of historical info about the creation and building of the tower.
(Iren, yes getting old sucks.)
Love the tiny bits of historical info about the creation and building of the tower.
(Iren, yes getting old sucks.)
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
"Surely, it was better to go forward into ruin than backward into rot."
This book is much faster-paced than the first of the series, and it is a very entertaining ride. The world grows even more fascinating and complex, and the plot's scope gets excitingly broad, and every other page seems to hold a string of words that resonates with such truth and relevance and poignancy and humor that the emotionally overwrought tween in me wants to cut them all out and make a collage. I intently await the author's third novel, and really any other fiction he might someday write.
But I am not as enthralled by it as I was the first. And that is maybe in part because the multiple points of view in this book allow less focus on a single character, and the faster pace of the plot quickly leaves behind any opportunity to dwell on an that made the first book, at the end, so fulfilling. But really, the fact that this book does not quite live up to the power of the first is less a criticism of this very good middle of a high quality adventure trilogy, and is instead just further testament to the depth and power of Senlin Ascends.
"What I wouldn't give to see it for the first time. Familiarity is such a cataract. I can't see past my stale impression of it anymore."
This book is much faster-paced than the first of the series, and it is a very entertaining ride. The world grows even more fascinating and complex, and the plot's scope gets excitingly broad, and every other page seems to hold a string of words that resonates with such truth and relevance and poignancy and humor that the emotionally overwrought tween in me wants to cut them all out and make a collage. I intently await the author's third novel, and really any other fiction he might someday write.
But I am not as enthralled by it as I was the first. And that is maybe in part because the multiple points of view in this book allow less focus on a single character, and the faster pace of the plot quickly leaves behind any opportunity to dwell on an that made the first book, at the end, so fulfilling. But really, the fact that this book does not quite live up to the power of the first is less a criticism of this very good middle of a high quality adventure trilogy, and is instead just further testament to the depth and power of Senlin Ascends.
"What I wouldn't give to see it for the first time. Familiarity is such a cataract. I can't see past my stale impression of it anymore."
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced