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A review by danaichristopoulou
Dead Country by Max Gladstone
5.0
My head is still spinning!
Not having read any of the previous books in the Craft Sequence, I fell into this super-intricate world and characters head first, and I didn't come up for air until the last page. Every time there was a flashback or a mention to Tara's past I was mesmerized and wanted to immediately read that book, and that one, and that one, and sure, it made for a dizzying reading experience but an overall great one. Gladstone's prose is, obviously highly accomplished and intense (I knew as much from Last Exit and from This Is How You Lose the Time War) and Tara Abernathy is a complicated character I definitely want to get to know better.
I'm sure readers who have already gone through the previous Craft Sequence books will have a much easier ride, but I don't regret using Dead Country as a starting point!
P.S. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Not having read any of the previous books in the Craft Sequence, I fell into this super-intricate world and characters head first, and I didn't come up for air until the last page. Every time there was a flashback or a mention to Tara's past I was mesmerized and wanted to immediately read that book, and that one, and that one, and sure, it made for a dizzying reading experience but an overall great one. Gladstone's prose is, obviously highly accomplished and intense (I knew as much from Last Exit and from This Is How You Lose the Time War) and Tara Abernathy is a complicated character I definitely want to get to know better.
I'm sure readers who have already gone through the previous Craft Sequence books will have a much easier ride, but I don't regret using Dead Country as a starting point!
P.S. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.