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A review by buchsy
Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
3.0
It tried to do the same thing as the first book, with multiple different POV characters, seperate locations, and converging timelines. But with too many POV characters it was hard to really get too invested in any of them. And while the style was novel and exciting in the first book, it just felt a bit boring and clunky in this book.
Just felt very, “second verse same as the first” but done worse and without any of the excitement of seeing it done the first time.
It wasn’t a bad book, but it had a lot to live up to and missed the mark slightly. I think the last third of the book was easily the most engaging (although coming to a truce at the last second with a flash forward to everything working out between such different species? Wonder where we’ve seen that before…).
Just felt very, “second verse same as the first” but done worse and without any of the excitement of seeing it done the first time.
It wasn’t a bad book, but it had a lot to live up to and missed the mark slightly. I think the last third of the book was easily the most engaging (although coming to a truce at the last second with a flash forward to everything working out between such different species? Wonder where we’ve seen that before…).