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A review by mhedgescsus
Son of a Liche by J. Zachary Pike
4.0
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4.5 stars. An extremely entertaining read that did not quite match the charm of it's predecessor.
This sequel to Orconomics has been highly anticipated by me ever since finishing that book due to how blown away I was by the quality, humor, and fun I had from start to finish. And while much of those qualities do exist in this sequel, I found myself ultimately not enjoying myself to quite as high of a level, in part due to the pacing issues that existed and in part due to the change in story structure.
While the first book had a somewhat forgettable plot, it was legitimately one of the funniest books I have ever read in my life - and it was entertaining 100% of the time. Unfortunately, I found almost the opposite to be true here, where the plot was significantly better but the comedy was noticeably toned down and the pacing caused several sections of this book to just drag on for far too long without anything entertaining happening.
This book is much longer than the first book, and I think this would have greatly benefitted by either being trimmed down or split into two books. Two books would actually have made a ton of sense because at about the halfway mark of this story a major conflict happens that wraps up a major part of the story, and then the second half of the book tells a brand new arc of the story.
I think part of the problem here from the comedy perspective is that a large part of what made the first book funny was how original the world was here. And in this book the hilarious world has already been created with not much more development here. If this were the first book in the series it would likely be just as hilarious as the first, but something was lost with how little was original here.
This sounds like I didn't like this book - which is simply no true. I had a wonderful time reading it and the plot was fantastic. But it's hard for me to review this without comparing it to the first book, which I just thought was quite a bit better than this one.
I'm still very much intrigued by this series and will pick up the final book in this trilogy the moment it gets released.
4.5 stars. An extremely entertaining read that did not quite match the charm of it's predecessor.
This sequel to Orconomics has been highly anticipated by me ever since finishing that book due to how blown away I was by the quality, humor, and fun I had from start to finish. And while much of those qualities do exist in this sequel, I found myself ultimately not enjoying myself to quite as high of a level, in part due to the pacing issues that existed and in part due to the change in story structure.
While the first book had a somewhat forgettable plot, it was legitimately one of the funniest books I have ever read in my life - and it was entertaining 100% of the time. Unfortunately, I found almost the opposite to be true here, where the plot was significantly better but the comedy was noticeably toned down and the pacing caused several sections of this book to just drag on for far too long without anything entertaining happening.
This book is much longer than the first book, and I think this would have greatly benefitted by either being trimmed down or split into two books. Two books would actually have made a ton of sense because at about the halfway mark of this story a major conflict happens that wraps up a major part of the story, and then the second half of the book tells a brand new arc of the story.
I think part of the problem here from the comedy perspective is that a large part of what made the first book funny was how original the world was here. And in this book the hilarious world has already been created with not much more development here. If this were the first book in the series it would likely be just as hilarious as the first, but something was lost with how little was original here.
This sounds like I didn't like this book - which is simply no true. I had a wonderful time reading it and the plot was fantastic. But it's hard for me to review this without comparing it to the first book, which I just thought was quite a bit better than this one.
I'm still very much intrigued by this series and will pick up the final book in this trilogy the moment it gets released.