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A review by tome15
The Sundering by Walter Jon Williams
4.0
Williams, Walter Jon. The Sundering. Dread Empire’s Fall No. 2. HarperTorch, 2003.
In this second installment of Dread Empire’s Fall, there are bigger battles and more intense romantic passions. The battle descriptions are as good as anything in Honor Harrington novels, and the romance is less PG than we in Bujold’s worlds. We can see how much Williams wants to complicate the politics and species diversity of his empire. Again, we are kept moving through the story by our interest in our protagonists, Lady Sula and Gareth Martinez. Each character, for different reasons, has trouble figuring out where they stand in the new dispensation and with each other. Don’t expect all the issues to be resolved yet, but don’t let that deter you from enjoying their uncertainty. This is good space opera.
In this second installment of Dread Empire’s Fall, there are bigger battles and more intense romantic passions. The battle descriptions are as good as anything in Honor Harrington novels, and the romance is less PG than we in Bujold’s worlds. We can see how much Williams wants to complicate the politics and species diversity of his empire. Again, we are kept moving through the story by our interest in our protagonists, Lady Sula and Gareth Martinez. Each character, for different reasons, has trouble figuring out where they stand in the new dispensation and with each other. Don’t expect all the issues to be resolved yet, but don’t let that deter you from enjoying their uncertainty. This is good space opera.