But I love these books and I want them to be widely read so that Martha gets to keep writing them, and I have to read them slowly because there’s simply so much to digest and think about. I’m normally not a big one for writing reviews, and certainly not for books I haven’t finished. Every bit of it makes sense in the context of the world. Shape-shifters, flying ships, city-trees, six kazillion sentient races, floating islands, and on and on and on, and yet it isn’t too much. But it’s the world that…just, wow! There is a depth and breadth and sheer alienness here that I have rarely seen in any novel. The characters, particularly the protagonist, Moon, are compelling and flawed and likable. This is because they are dense, and complex, with truly amazing world building, and non-human characters who are quite genuinely alien, yet still comprehensible and sympathetic. These books are hard to capture in a review of any reasonable length. It’s the sequel to The Cloud Roads, and, like it’s predecessor, it is an excellent read. I’m reading Martha Wells’ The Serpent Sea right now.
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