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tkat's review
3.0
This trilogy promises to be quite interesting and intriguing if you can follow along with the incredibly detailed mythology long enough.
Here we have the second installment of the saga of the Thirteen Orphans. We travel to the spirit realm of the Orphans and we do battle with something that is slowly dissolving the realms into nothing. Looks like we have quite the mystery on our hands!
The Orphans discover that they have more enemies than friends back home in our world, but they're dealt with easily enough. And in quite the amusing way too.
The Orphans need nine gates, connecting all the spirit realms together with the Lands Born of Smoke and Sacrifice. They're all needed to eventually gain entrance to the Lands and defeat the darkness that lies at it's heart and is threatening the Lands, the spirit realms, and our world as well. Here we see the establishment of the first of the nine gates, and while setting up the other eight would extend the series quite a bit, the orphans are able to cheat a bit with the aid of the Guardians of the four spirit realms.
Little hard for me to follow at first, but I was able to keep up and enjoy the book through and through.
Here we have the second installment of the saga of the Thirteen Orphans. We travel to the spirit realm of the Orphans and we do battle with something that is slowly dissolving the realms into nothing. Looks like we have quite the mystery on our hands!
The Orphans discover that they have more enemies than friends back home in our world, but they're dealt with easily enough. And in quite the amusing way too.
The Orphans need nine gates, connecting all the spirit realms together with the Lands Born of Smoke and Sacrifice. They're all needed to eventually gain entrance to the Lands and defeat the darkness that lies at it's heart and is threatening the Lands, the spirit realms, and our world as well. Here we see the establishment of the first of the nine gates, and while setting up the other eight would extend the series quite a bit, the orphans are able to cheat a bit with the aid of the Guardians of the four spirit realms.
Little hard for me to follow at first, but I was able to keep up and enjoy the book through and through.
the_graylien's review
3.0
This one is second outing for this series, which I want so much to absolutely love...
The Chinese zodiac, the system of magic based upon mahjong tiles, all the occult-y, fantastic stuff: all right up my alley.
My problem with this series is, as I said in my review of the first book, is that it's just... It's a lot of talk and little action.
The aforementioned system of magic is a fresh and original idea, but the detail which the author delves into it is often exhausting to read and plot points take hundreds of pages to come to fruition.
Still, this is a great idea and maybe with a bit of a rest I can come back and enjoy the third and final book of this series.
The Chinese zodiac, the system of magic based upon mahjong tiles, all the occult-y, fantastic stuff: all right up my alley.
My problem with this series is, as I said in my review of the first book, is that it's just... It's a lot of talk and little action.
The aforementioned system of magic is a fresh and original idea, but the detail which the author delves into it is often exhausting to read and plot points take hundreds of pages to come to fruition.
Still, this is a great idea and maybe with a bit of a rest I can come back and enjoy the third and final book of this series.
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