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goodnight_moon 's review for:
The God of Lost Words
by A.J. Hackwith
If Library of the Unwritten was the original Star Wars - a rag tag bunch from various corners of a massive universe explaining only what's necessary to understand who's shooting and why - then Archive of the Forgotten and God of Lost Words are The Phantom Menace - plodding, political, trying way too hard to give the series a profound and foundational message.
Maybe the author ran out of adventures and compensated with philosophy. But mentally returning to the first book, it feels like they always intended to spend too much time later on asking "what is the nature of a story", "what is the purpose of a library", "what is the nature and purpose of the afterlife".
I said it last time, and I swear it only got worse: the narrator does not do a good job. I can hear the effort, and I cant distinguish the characters' voices. That's bad, and it wasn't a problem in the first book.
I'll always appreciate the first story for what it was, but if you have a hard time leaving something unfinished, I wouldn't pick it up.
Maybe the author ran out of adventures and compensated with philosophy. But mentally returning to the first book, it feels like they always intended to spend too much time later on asking "what is the nature of a story", "what is the purpose of a library", "what is the nature and purpose of the afterlife".
I said it last time, and I swear it only got worse: the narrator does not do a good job. I can hear the effort, and I cant distinguish the characters' voices. That's bad, and it wasn't a problem in the first book.
I'll always appreciate the first story for what it was, but if you have a hard time leaving something unfinished, I wouldn't pick it up.