Review: Folding the Surface of the Veil - Let Your Mind Twist Pierce this Series!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 5, 2013
The infant/toddler phase came in Piercing The FoldPiercing The Fold (The Piercing the Fold Series)and the characters and story came into the literary world kicking and screaming to be noticed, and it was, this story had classic style and a beautiful tale needing to be told. Onward we moved to the school years with Surfacing the RimSurfacing the Rim (The Piercing the Fold Series)and the series plowed forward, strutting through the stratosphere, strong and making a parent proud to support it through the thick and the thin of it all.Now, Author Venessa Kimball gives us the young adult years with Ascending the Veil.Ascending the Veil, literally picks up where we left off at the end of Surfacing the Rim, the cataclysmic event has occurred and now the Sondian Fellowship and Dobrian Fellowship both must pursue their after event missions, depending on where the chips fell after the intersection. Chaos has come to our world and the Jesca and her friends and family are smack dab in the middle of it, and honestly expected to help solve the problem. Are they up to that challenge? This question has been posed from the beginning, are these characters capable to support this story line that Kimball has worked so hard to craft? The answer is yes. The characters are a rich and diverse cast that have only grown through the series development phases. Kimball never leaves a character left stranded in a plot hole or forgets that they have a role to play, no matter how minute that role may be within the grand scheme of her universes.The story is a good extension of the first two books and takes us into the heart of the cataclysmic event, but... and there is one this time, the beginning felt a but muddied by indecisive moments with two of the main cast, Jesca and Xander, and I fear the overall tale came off a bit rushed, potentially forced. For me, it is one of the crucial pitfalls of sequels... there will be times when the story loses the flow and the power it originally held for the reader. I loved the majority of the story, the action became so intense I was truly on the edge of my seat waiting to see what would happen, there were some great twists and turns as well, but some areas just fell a little flat.I have a curse, I am known for wanting more, and that is the pure issue here, I wanted more... more conflicts before the journey, more emotional charge between specific characters, just more and more and more. History is a huge part of writing for me and when I am reading if an author presents history or the back story, I am intrigued and want to know as much as I can about the facts. Thus, I was disappointed that when Kimball started sharing what is a huge detail in the back story of multiple characters within the story, it seemed unfinished and almost uninteresting... you guessed it, I wanted more!Do not get me wrong, Ascending the Veil is a great addition to the Piercing the Fold series and a must read if you have become invested in this tale of wonder and wisdom, in fact we here at The Library at the END of the Universe happily award it with: 5 Cog Hearts