Review: Still a fun read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 28, 2013
Wayward picks up right where villan left off. That in itself is one of the big issues that i had with the book. The beginning, id say the first fifth of the book, is frustrating and i kind of wish it was not there. It serves a purpose but it was drawn out and i cant say much about it because that would ruin a good portion of the book.Obviously Blackjack gets thrown back into the world with whole new problems to deal with. Unfortuantly the cast of characters is not as rich as in Villan. I distinctly missed both Cool and Apogee especially in the start. Dale interacting with those two in particular made Villan fun to read. Thats not to say Wayaward isnt fun, because it is. Its also more serious with Dale going through darker times. The characters and what they go through reflect that as well, lacking the levity of parts of book one.Another thing that irked me was the lack of talk about the greater threat, the lightbringers. They are mentioned a couple times but in the several times the battle on the island is mentioned the reason it was fought was not. Id imagine we havent seen the last of them. The action is similar to the end of Villan with Blackjack forgoing his bow for the more direct approach. In my opinion this took some of the unpredictability that his bow and gadgets brought to a fight. A last issue i had was the repetition, some information was repeated over and over. Im not talking about 3 times in a book im talking three times in the span of 50 or so pages. The theme seemed to be Dales confused in this book for MOST of the book and it got old after awhile even if there was a reason.I kind of saw the ending coming but its suddeness surprised me. The above seems like i had many problems with the book but they did little to detract from the experience. It was fun and exciting. Also moving at times and I devoured the book, will read it again in a few days and am already looking forward to the next in the series. So yes, if you liked book one i can easily say give book two a shot.