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kimeowra 's review for:
Red Seas Under Red Skies
by Scott Lynch
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Although I loved the first one, this one felt weaker. About 100 pages in, the main cast stops driving the story. They survive out of pure luck and continue to do so until the very end. They lost any bit of control they had in the first book and we don't really get to see them be the Gentleman Bastards we love until the very end of the book. It's infuriating to no end how the world around them dictate everything they do to the point that whatever they might try will simply never work. They are constantly stuck at the mercy of other characters that they can't influence or events that they can't predict. The pirate arc is really nice, but the Dark Fantasy archetypes seems, once again, to only strike the main cast. They have to suffer and have to go through unimaginable things, as opposed to the first book where it seemed everyone in that world went through it. The world around them seems less lively and it's focused a lot more on the main cast.
Despite all of this, it was a really fun read and would still recommend it to anyone who read the first one.
Despite all of this, it was a really fun read and would still recommend it to anyone who read the first one.