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A review by magnetgrrl
The Temple at Landfall by Jane Fletcher
4.0
I read this one second in the Celeano series. You do not have to read the books in this series in any order.
Much like the first book I read, Rangers at Roadsend, the romance is a bit tepid. They barely know one another, fall into "insta-love", and the single sex scene near the end of the book isn't all that steamy. The main characters have a bit more chemistry than the leads in Rangers at Roadsend, and there's more angst, but it's all a backseat to the main "escape" story, which has a more "fight against religious dogma" kind of plot. More entertaining than it sounds, believe me.
Without giving too much away, I'll just say that you learn a lot more about how the world works in this book - both how some inhabitants think it works and how it really works - and there's, yet again, a fantastic epilogue that contains almost a better story than the main story itself, and moves the real world-building of the series forward. This time it's epistolary, as we get a glimpse into a diary of one of the original settlers of Celeano, who just happens to be a man; something the Celeano residents generations later no longer have a concept of. Also, though the book doesn't center on the Rangers alone, once again I got totally engrossed in reading about military command structure and tactics and was mystified about how that happened since it's not something I am normally interested in at all. There's something to be said for that.
Much like the first book I read, Rangers at Roadsend, the romance is a bit tepid. They barely know one another, fall into "insta-love", and the single sex scene near the end of the book isn't all that steamy. The main characters have a bit more chemistry than the leads in Rangers at Roadsend, and there's more angst, but it's all a backseat to the main "escape" story, which has a more "fight against religious dogma" kind of plot. More entertaining than it sounds, believe me.
Without giving too much away, I'll just say that you learn a lot more about how the world works in this book - both how some inhabitants think it works and how it really works - and there's, yet again, a fantastic epilogue that contains almost a better story than the main story itself, and moves the real world-building of the series forward. This time it's epistolary, as we get a glimpse into a diary of one of the original settlers of Celeano, who just happens to be a man; something the Celeano residents generations later no longer have a concept of. Also, though the book doesn't center on the Rangers alone, once again I got totally engrossed in reading about military command structure and tactics and was mystified about how that happened since it's not something I am normally interested in at all. There's something to be said for that.