A review by rosieryel
The Faithless by C.L. Clark

adventurous challenging tense
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
a really successful second-in-a-trilogy book! the shift in location helped expand on things from the first one and introduced new elements. i like that the romance was both an excruciating slowburn (but one that made sense rather than being frustrating) and also happened in this book so they’ll be navigating it in the third. i actually thought this was a duology so i kept thinking it didn’t go far enough with the fingers plotline or the masridan plotline but those are now great hooks for the thud book. i do wish
gil got more of an arc before his death bc i found his character potentially rly interesting
again one of my fave depictions of imperialism/colonialism in a fantasy series it’s really well thought through and much more radical than a lot of series - excited to see how that intersects with the anti-royalist movement in the next book especially since the protagonist(s, sort of) are the royals.
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