Review: Excellent Sequel
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 25, 2014
I don’t know if I liked this book or the first book better. Maybe I love them equally. Whereas the first introduces the characters and explores this new world they tumble into, this sequel hits the ground running as the story pushes forward. There’s hardly any recapping to remind you who is who or what was going on prior, so I recommend reading this soon after reading the first book (which I didn’t do but managed to keep up well enough, so it IS possible).The plot here is a pretty basic journey structure – they have to get from point A to point B. Of course things go wrong. The plot thickens, so to speak. We see lots more of Destin’s world and meet more of its peoples. All during Ross's tiring, adventurous journey, we learn more and more about Destin’s history and his father’s “creation” of that history. Sawyer’s splitting storyline is equally fascinating and tense, and I really don’t know which of the two storylines I kept wanting to race back to because they both flowed so well.The writing itself has the same great flavor as the first book, which was a great treat and a pleasure to read. The creativity packed into this world is fabulous, and even the craziest scenes are easy to picture.By the end of this book, you definitely learn a backstory that is wonderfully complex and makes everything start to fit together between the worlds. (I won’t ruin anything, but it’s good.) I certainly encourage everyone to pester the author as much as possible to make him hurry up with the third book.