Review: Lacked the complexity of the first book
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 29, 2014
I kept reading this book to see if anything would happen.  It didn't.  I won't spoil the plot, but until the very end, it was pretty insipid.  The characters weren't particularly novel.  There was peril, but I just didn't feel the menace in the same way as I did in the first book because of the environment presented in the Crown of the Setting Sun.  It just didn't measure up and there was no continuation of the plot in Book 1 since it happens a generation or two later.  Perhaps Book 3 might be more interesting.