cupiscent's review
4.0
This has been a really interesting trilogy. It's an intriguing mixture of starkly stilted but poetic prose, action that's anime-esque in both it's ridiculousness and epic coolness, and a Messianic throughline that manages to be both profoundly Christian and genuinely interrogative of the concept of evil vs grace in mankind, and what part God and/or Christ might play in that. It does so many things that fantasy fiction just isn't doing - is so unusual and intriguing - and at least one of the stars I've given it is for being just so plain bloody different in a genre that gets a lot of its strength and comfort from familiarity.
I would recommend that if you're reading this series, read all three in quick succession. The style might get a little overbearing, but it's already quite oblique and fast-paced in its own timeline, so a large gap between books can lead to a lot of confusion.
I would recommend that if you're reading this series, read all three in quick succession. The style might get a little overbearing, but it's already quite oblique and fast-paced in its own timeline, so a large gap between books can lead to a lot of confusion.
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