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lightreads ([personal profile] lightreads) wrote2013-06-03 10:23 pm
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The Serpent Sea by Martha Wells

The Serpent Sea (Books of the Raksura #2)The Serpent Sea by Martha Wells

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


More fantasy winged matriarchal hive creature adventure. This book had the crushing misfortune to follow one of the best fantasy novels I've read in a long time, and in comparison it just couldn't stand up. I enjoyed it, but the contrast between this book, in which a lot of plot nonsense happens and there's an occasional signpost to remind us that this is about community-building and homecoming, and the last book I read, in which plot and theme worked together like paired muscle fiber . . . well, it was a little painful.



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[personal profile] kate_nepveu 2013-06-04 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
In case it's not caught in your backlog, I did not enjoy the third as much as the first two (didn't think the plot balanced properly, and while the angst was understandable, it was still more than I wanted in book 3).
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[personal profile] lightreads 2013-06-04 03:02 am (UTC)(link)

Good to know. I do think I'm done here -- I got the idea, had a few good hours, suspect there is not much else to be had for me.

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[personal profile] kate_nepveu 2013-06-04 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, except if you particularly want to find out about Moon's past and family. There is that. But otherwise, yeah.
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