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A review by kanissa
Requiem by Ken Scholes
4.0
I really wanted to give it 3.5 stars, but I rounded up to 4 since I did keep wanting to read it.
I definitely still like this series, but I don't think this installment was as amazing as the others. While I still like the main characters, I think maybe 5 books is just too much exposure. They're no longer as exciting or surprising. Sometimes they seem like completely different people from what they were in book 3.
I also felt the plot jumped a bit too suddenly - in book 3 we had a lot of traveling and thinking and buildup. In this one, there's a bit of that but then suddenly the world is on fire! (Quite literally, in parts.)
However, I continue to enjoy Scholes' style and absolutely bat-s$&% insane world building (it's a nice change from the generic stuff you usually see). I suspect this novel just suffers from the usual penultimate novel malaise.
I definitely still like this series, but I don't think this installment was as amazing as the others. While I still like the main characters, I think maybe 5 books is just too much exposure. They're no longer as exciting or surprising. Sometimes they seem like completely different people from what they were in book 3.
I also felt the plot jumped a bit too suddenly - in book 3 we had a lot of traveling and thinking and buildup. In this one, there's a bit of that but then suddenly the world is on fire! (Quite literally, in parts.)
However, I continue to enjoy Scholes' style and absolutely bat-s$&% insane world building (it's a nice change from the generic stuff you usually see). I suspect this novel just suffers from the usual penultimate novel malaise.