01-04-2022, 07:13 AM
Two Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone
I will be starting a Craft Sequence thread to keep all these reviews and discussions in one place. The series kind of warrants it. Especially since I have five more Craft Sequence books waiting.
This book was so much more action packed than The Last First Snow. The book revolves around Temoc's son, Caleb. Caleb now works for Red King Consolidated which is owned by the Red King, Temoc's enemy. Caleb must navigate the contract to acquire Hearthstone and it's water rights, contract negotiations are the basis for many great fantasy novels. Things go awry when demons start getting into the reservoirs which leads to them coming out of faucets in Dresediel Lex, the main city. Things get worse from there.
It helped a lot to have read The Last First snow first, because many of those characters play roles in Two Serpents Rise. Although, Temoc in Last First Snow is a much more sympathetic character than he is in Two Serpents Rise. Oddly the first book I read in the Craft Sequence is Three parts dead, which I'm reading now.
I will be starting a Craft Sequence thread to keep all these reviews and discussions in one place. The series kind of warrants it. Especially since I have five more Craft Sequence books waiting.
This book was so much more action packed than The Last First Snow. The book revolves around Temoc's son, Caleb. Caleb now works for Red King Consolidated which is owned by the Red King, Temoc's enemy. Caleb must navigate the contract to acquire Hearthstone and it's water rights, contract negotiations are the basis for many great fantasy novels. Things go awry when demons start getting into the reservoirs which leads to them coming out of faucets in Dresediel Lex, the main city. Things get worse from there.
It helped a lot to have read The Last First snow first, because many of those characters play roles in Two Serpents Rise. Although, Temoc in Last First Snow is a much more sympathetic character than he is in Two Serpents Rise. Oddly the first book I read in the Craft Sequence is Three parts dead, which I'm reading now.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm