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A review by kcrawfish
Scala by Christina Bauer
4.0
I loved the first and I loved the second.
This book rolls at a much faster pace, which definitely works to its advantage. The characters are already well established, Myla's still mouthy like we love, they've just all come into themselves.
Seeing Myla finally taking control and ruling like the beast she is is sooooo satisfying. Her mom is President of Purgatory, and now almost completely back to her old Senator self. Lincoln is still strong and their relationship is just so...yum. Also, Walker is living it up as a head engineer (all that potential finally working towards something other than the world's most efficient transportation). He gets to save Myla's ass a couple times, so that's great.
The book starts up a little past the end of the first. Myla's the new Great Scala, and she's navigating the politics and responsibilities that come with liberating a realm - trying to unbrainwash a whole population who've been raised to believe that they're sheep.
The Gouls have left Lucifers Orb hidden in Purgatory, preventing Myla from moving any souls to heaven, so finding it is priority #1. She hasn't been able to move any souls yet as a result, and The Ghost Towers holding the unmoved souls are threatening to burst and unleash an angry, destructive, ghostly army across purgatory. Myla rightly feels responsible for Purgatory and its inhabitants, but more so, a responsibility to the souls she needs to move. If she moves them to hell, there's no way for her to take that decision back. So she refuses to follow Goul protocol and just move them all to hell for the sake of the living; at least unless she absolutely has to.
As you can imagine, the brainwashed quasis who are running the towers hate this. They've all got Goul-fetishes, and miss their old masters.
Meanwhile, Adair (who I hate. I hate hate hate her) is stalking Myla. She has an evil plot brewing and is just arrogant, self-absorbed, and stupid enough to flaunt around in front of The Great Scala like she's been cheated in all this (aka. she thinks Lincoln is hers, that she should be the Great Scala, and is actively politically sabotaging Myla by stirring up riots).
Sneaky idiot.
And once again, an uber creative tale is beautifully spun. I felt considerably more fear for her in this book than the first, and also considerably more satisfaction in watching her deal with things.
I was sad this was a shorter book (less time with the characters) but I've already picked up the third, so keep bringing it on, Christina!
More awesome reviews = http://rantingsravingsbookreviews.blogspot.com/
This book rolls at a much faster pace, which definitely works to its advantage. The characters are already well established, Myla's still mouthy like we love, they've just all come into themselves.
Seeing Myla finally taking control and ruling like the beast she is is sooooo satisfying. Her mom is President of Purgatory, and now almost completely back to her old Senator self. Lincoln is still strong and their relationship is just so...yum. Also, Walker is living it up as a head engineer (all that potential finally working towards something other than the world's most efficient transportation). He gets to save Myla's ass a couple times, so that's great.
The book starts up a little past the end of the first. Myla's the new Great Scala, and she's navigating the politics and responsibilities that come with liberating a realm - trying to unbrainwash a whole population who've been raised to believe that they're sheep.
The Gouls have left Lucifers Orb hidden in Purgatory, preventing Myla from moving any souls to heaven, so finding it is priority #1. She hasn't been able to move any souls yet as a result, and The Ghost Towers holding the unmoved souls are threatening to burst and unleash an angry, destructive, ghostly army across purgatory. Myla rightly feels responsible for Purgatory and its inhabitants, but more so, a responsibility to the souls she needs to move. If she moves them to hell, there's no way for her to take that decision back. So she refuses to follow Goul protocol and just move them all to hell for the sake of the living; at least unless she absolutely has to.
As you can imagine, the brainwashed quasis who are running the towers hate this. They've all got Goul-fetishes, and miss their old masters.
Meanwhile, Adair (who I hate. I hate hate hate her) is stalking Myla. She has an evil plot brewing and is just arrogant, self-absorbed, and stupid enough to flaunt around in front of The Great Scala like she's been cheated in all this (aka. she thinks Lincoln is hers, that she should be the Great Scala, and is actively politically sabotaging Myla by stirring up riots).
Sneaky idiot.
And once again, an uber creative tale is beautifully spun. I felt considerably more fear for her in this book than the first, and also considerably more satisfaction in watching her deal with things.
I was sad this was a shorter book (less time with the characters) but I've already picked up the third, so keep bringing it on, Christina!
More awesome reviews = http://rantingsravingsbookreviews.blogspot.com/