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sophia_sol) wrote2022-07-18 08:54 am
sophia_sol) wrote2022-07-18 08:54 am
Fevered Star, by Rebecca Roanhorse
This book is the sequel to Black Sun, which I read over a year ago, and is a direct enough follow-up that it requires one to REMEMBER details from the first book. Which is a problem! I don't have a good memory!
The thing is that this is turning out to be an epic fantasy series, with lots of important viewpoint characters, and interplays of politics between many different groups, plus gods and magic and stuff. And that's a lot to keep track of. It took me until about halfway through Fevered Star to feel like I had a handle on what was going on, and even then it was definitely not a handle on EVERYTHING.
I do think it's great that this is an epic fantasy series that isn't set in a vaguely European inspired world, but instead in a pre-contact-Americas inspired world. That's really cool!
But epic fantasy is just a lot, and I'm bad at investing in ongoing wip epic series of unknown length.
Somehow I thought going in that this was going to be a duology, so I thought that Fevered Star would actually wrap up all the loose threads left dangling at the end of Black Sun, but no, nothing is concluded STILL even though this is another doorstopper; instead we are in the process of setting up for a major war.
I think it's very good at being exactly what it is, and I am glad it's doing its thing, and I'm going to keep reading the series (SIGH) but I really think it's a story that would benefit from being read all at once so that one can keep everything in one's head, and that's not how the publishing world works. One book at a time!
The thing is that this is turning out to be an epic fantasy series, with lots of important viewpoint characters, and interplays of politics between many different groups, plus gods and magic and stuff. And that's a lot to keep track of. It took me until about halfway through Fevered Star to feel like I had a handle on what was going on, and even then it was definitely not a handle on EVERYTHING.
I do think it's great that this is an epic fantasy series that isn't set in a vaguely European inspired world, but instead in a pre-contact-Americas inspired world. That's really cool!
But epic fantasy is just a lot, and I'm bad at investing in ongoing wip epic series of unknown length.
Somehow I thought going in that this was going to be a duology, so I thought that Fevered Star would actually wrap up all the loose threads left dangling at the end of Black Sun, but no, nothing is concluded STILL even though this is another doorstopper; instead we are in the process of setting up for a major war.
I think it's very good at being exactly what it is, and I am glad it's doing its thing, and I'm going to keep reading the series (SIGH) but I really think it's a story that would benefit from being read all at once so that one can keep everything in one's head, and that's not how the publishing world works. One book at a time!