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A review by katieinca
An Artificial Night by Seanan McGuire
4.0
[2020:] Three books in and this is a BIG cast of characters to have developed well enough that even some of the minor ones can make you laugh and cry.
[2015:] Now THAT's what I'm talking about. This is the level of quality I was expecting and hoping for in this series, and I look forward to tearing through the rest of them. The character makes sense in a way she didn't in the first book - and we start getting hints of things that were maddeningly unexplained before - and the plot works. I really appreciate that it does a better job than most of its ilk in handling the "but the odds you've just described are basically insurmountable, are you suicidal or something?" issue.
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In particular I'm thinking of when they break the ride by yelling things like "Cassandra Brown, student physicist. Give me back by aunt!" I love that bit.[2015:] Now THAT's what I'm talking about. This is the level of quality I was expecting and hoping for in this series, and I look forward to tearing through the rest of them. The character makes sense in a way she didn't in the first book - and we start getting hints of things that were maddeningly unexplained before - and the plot works. I really appreciate that it does a better job than most of its ilk in handling the "but the odds you've just described are basically insurmountable, are you suicidal or something?" issue.