Review: Escher's House
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 2, 2013
This is a hard one to review as a stand alone work. Mainly because you HAVE to read the other parts of the whole (the rest of the series) to appreciate it's purpose. Having said that I honestly believe it should have been merged with book 3 in order not to disappoint readers the way the reviews indicate it so obviously did. In this part of the story, our heroes from book 1 are joined by some new characters. They have a new quest to follow, which is linked to what happened in the previous volume, but does not involve the tunnels under Briar Hill (that DOES come up again, trust me, just not in this section). I gave it 4 stars because I HAVE read book 3 and can see it's purpose and to be frank I did enjoy the fact that the author chose, at this juncture, to not just recycle book 1. I can understand some of the other reviewer's frustrations though - this section, while entertaining, just doesn't seem to pack as much punch as it's predecessor and so it feels a little flat in comparison. I urge you to continue reading though, because things do take off again. I stand by my previous assertion though that THIS part of the story should be combined into book 3 to avoid reader drop off.