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A review by obsidian_blue
Rage of the Fallen by Joseph Delaney
2.0
Rubs eyes. At this point I think that the series is going to have each book with Tom traveling to each country that has ever been in a matter of days and have him take out another big bad. This book always cements the fact that Tom is a Gary Sue. And that Alice is the best thing ever and maybe that is who we should have been following all along.
"Rage of the Fallen" has our merry trio (not really) traveling to Ireland to escape the fighting that has taken over the County and the island of Mona. Tom though is worried because he keeps dreaming of the witch that Bill Arkwright killed and that the goddess Morrigan is after him and has warned him to never set foot on Ireland. Again, most of the book is trying to escape bad people, getting captured, offered terrible choices, lather, rinse, and repeat.
I read some other reviews that complained about the changing myths we are supposed to track in this series at this point and I have to agree. It's a lot going on (per usual) and it just felt like Delaney wanted to do a myth mash up instead of sticking with what we had in the first few books. And again if the overall plot is to defeat Voldermort....eh I mean the Fiend, the sidequests the characters keep going on are not that important and just start to read as filler after a while. You just (or I just) got so bored and I don't care. There's no high stakes even in this one because though someone is captured, they are released, we are told there is no hope for them, and then they are back to normal a few pages later. I was like....what the heck? Can we just not have any type of tension in this series? Ever?
Also, again, Tom doesn't tell the Spook something and there are zero repercussions for it.
Honestly, the best thing that happened in this book was that Tom gets trained by Grimalkin, and she seems to be the only character with any common sense outside of Alice.
"Rage of the Fallen" has our merry trio (not really) traveling to Ireland to escape the fighting that has taken over the County and the island of Mona. Tom though is worried because he keeps dreaming of the witch that Bill Arkwright killed and that the goddess Morrigan is after him and has warned him to never set foot on Ireland. Again, most of the book is trying to escape bad people, getting captured, offered terrible choices, lather, rinse, and repeat.
I read some other reviews that complained about the changing myths we are supposed to track in this series at this point and I have to agree. It's a lot going on (per usual) and it just felt like Delaney wanted to do a myth mash up instead of sticking with what we had in the first few books. And again if the overall plot is to defeat Voldermort....eh I mean the Fiend, the sidequests the characters keep going on are not that important and just start to read as filler after a while. You just (or I just) got so bored and I don't care. There's no high stakes even in this one because though someone is captured, they are released, we are told there is no hope for them, and then they are back to normal a few pages later. I was like....what the heck? Can we just not have any type of tension in this series? Ever?
Also, again, Tom doesn't tell the Spook something and there are zero repercussions for it.
Honestly, the best thing that happened in this book was that Tom gets trained by Grimalkin, and she seems to be the only character with any common sense outside of Alice.