A review by liketheday
Countdown City by Ben H. Winters

3.0

This book suffers from some of that second-book-in-a-trilogy malaise where the first book stands alone quite well but the second one exists largely to lead into the third one and its big ending. There's some stringing along of interesting mysteries left over from the first novel (what the heck is up with Palace's sister and her friends) and some new mysteries introduced (what the heck is the government doing?), and I presume that when I read the third book I will get some halfway decent answers to them.
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