(March 2017)
Welcome to the Craft Sequence, I guess.
Good, solid secondary (?) world urban fantasy, featuring lawyer-wizards, gods,
and disaffected wage slaves. It’s kind of addictive, so I’m probably going to
work my way through the first five books in fairly short order (the sixth is
due out this autumn). More thoughts on the deeper meanings of this blend of
High Fantasy and Late Capitalism when I’ve got it all under my belt, as I’m not
entirely sure it’s all working quite as it should just yet. Short term,
however, I’ll merely state that Three
Parts Dead is a better book than Two
Serpents Rise: the central character is more compelling, the philosophical editorializing
is less intrusive, and the story is less reliant on a fairly predictable
face-heel turn. As I write this I’m partway through Full Fathom Five, and while some of these flaws are still evident,
I’m pleased to report that for the most part things are definitely moving in
the right direction.