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Arm of the Sphinx
by Josiah Bancroft
"Surely, it was better to go forward into ruin than backward into rot."
This book is much faster-paced than the first of the series, and it is a very entertaining ride. The world grows even more fascinating and complex, and the plot's scope gets excitingly broad, and every other page seems to hold a string of words that resonates with such truth and relevance and poignancy and humor that the emotionally overwrought tween in me wants to cut them all out and make a collage. I intently await the author's third novel, and really any other fiction he might someday write.
But I am not as enthralled by it as I was the first. And that is maybe in part because the multiple points of view in this book allow less focus on a single character, and the faster pace of the plot quickly leaves behind any opportunity to dwell on an that made the first book, at the end, so fulfilling. But really, the fact that this book does not quite live up to the power of the first is less a criticism of this very good middle of a high quality adventure trilogy, and is instead just further testament to the depth and power of Senlin Ascends.
"What I wouldn't give to see it for the first time. Familiarity is such a cataract. I can't see past my stale impression of it anymore."
This book is much faster-paced than the first of the series, and it is a very entertaining ride. The world grows even more fascinating and complex, and the plot's scope gets excitingly broad, and every other page seems to hold a string of words that resonates with such truth and relevance and poignancy and humor that the emotionally overwrought tween in me wants to cut them all out and make a collage. I intently await the author's third novel, and really any other fiction he might someday write.
But I am not as enthralled by it as I was the first. And that is maybe in part because the multiple points of view in this book allow less focus on a single character, and the faster pace of the plot quickly leaves behind any opportunity to dwell on an that made the first book, at the end, so fulfilling. But really, the fact that this book does not quite live up to the power of the first is less a criticism of this very good middle of a high quality adventure trilogy, and is instead just further testament to the depth and power of Senlin Ascends.
"What I wouldn't give to see it for the first time. Familiarity is such a cataract. I can't see past my stale impression of it anymore."