Robert Jackson Bennett
Autore di City of Stairs
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Bennett at the 2017 Texas Book Festival
Serie
Opere di Robert Jackson Bennett
Opere correlate
Subterranean Magazine Summer 2012 — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Bennett, Robert Jackson
- Data di nascita
- 1984
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Austin, Texas, USA
- Istruzione
- University of Texas
- Attività lavorative
- speculative fiction writer
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Edgar Award (1)
Premi e riconoscimenti
Potrebbero anche piacerti
Autori correlati
Statistiche
- Opere
- 25
- Opere correlate
- 5
- Utenti
- 8,026
- Popolarità
- #3,020
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 566
- ISBN
- 146
- Lingue
- 10
- Preferito da
- 8
Anyway. I couldn’t quite remember what happened at the end of book 2 (a bad sign), but I got my bearings quickly (a good sign). Eight years have passed, the characters are still battling the new enemy from Shorefall. It was cool to see Berenice as a great general – but why on earth does her team keep addressing her as “Capo”? Yes, sure, the word might not mean the same thing in this universe as in ours, but I jumped every time it appeared on the page and I imagined Berenice as a mafia boss, lol. Sorry, I digress.
The mind magic is wondrous, I liked what RJB did here – a new kind of society and a different way of being human. The “cadences” are awesome, and I wish all these ideas had been explored deeper. They got lost in the action and dark places, though.
Naturally, we are on a mission to save the world.
“But there is no dancing through a monsoon, my love.”
Does it make sense when I say that the plot did not bore me, but the endless action did? The book is almost 550 pages long, and I felt like celebrating when I got to page 300. The characters run, hide, shoot at things, use magic, things go awry, things go awry again, someone has a new desperate plan. Repeat. There is lot of screaming as well, I lost count of “oh no no no oh god no no no’s”. I should have had a drinking game with this, really. Also, the dialogues and the characters’ reactions to events seemed very YA. I grew tired of them all.
Crasedes, the villain from book 2, makes things more exciting when he appears. (It’s “the enemy of my enemy” trope.) He is too entertaining at times, so that the I felt guilty about having fun, considering what happened in the previous book. A false note, I’d say.
Clef’s and Crasedes’ backstory, when it was completely revealed, was interesting and emotional. Yet this got lost in the action too, so it wasn’t interesting and emotional enough.
I liked the epilogue!
P.S. I am still looking forward to reading more books by Robert Jackson Bennett :)… (altro)