Review: The story continues...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 22, 2013
The tone of this book is rather different than "Distant Rumblings," the first book in the series---a bit more serious, a bit more action-oriented. We're leaving the mortal world behind this time around---and with it, Hawk's fish-out-of-water adventures that added a bit of levity to the first volume---and moving to the Faerie realm. And no mistake---this isn't a great place to be at the moment. Or, perhaps, at any time. We meet precious few really admirable individuals in this world---everyone has their own prejudices and their own agendas, with deceit and trickery lurking around every corner; there are villains aplenty.However, the chief villain of the piece is Puck, stirring up trouble in every way imaginable; he really is a character with no redeeming qualities. And yet.....  While I can't summon up even the tiniest shred of sympathy for him, because he's so awful, at the same time I do somewhat understand his viewpoint and can see why he's doing these things. Still---no excuse....  poor, poor, poor Spike....I enjoyed the story well enough, though it read more as a standard fantasy than the first book did. It looks like things will wind up in a third volume, and I'm willing to go along for the ride to see what happens next.