(April 2017)
OK, so I’m aware that there’s a sixth
installment of the Craft Sequence coming out later this year, but I think I’m
going to hold off on the rest for the immediate future. I think Gladstone is
better at ending books than beginning them.
This isn’t really much of a complaint, as
he’s very good at ending them, but the temptation (not helped by buying the
first five all together in a single ebook omnibus) is then to bounce straight
out of one and into the next. Over the last month or so I’ve found myself doing
exactly that, only to get about a quarter of the way into the following book
and lose momentum. This says more about me than the books, of course, but there
it is. As I write this I find myself wanting to keep straight on to Four Roads Cross, which I’ve heard is a
doozy, but suspect that I should probably pause a little and try to experience
each installment as a single whole, rather than part of an interrupted
conglomeration of parts. For what it’s worth, however, for all that the
flashing out of Temoc was well executed, I’m not quite as enamoured of the
location and characters of Dresidiel Lex and the author seems to be. Given the
hints we got in Full Fathom Five,
however, it’s all too easy to credit the rumours of the excellence of Four Roads Cross. We shall see just how
well my willpower holds out.
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