New Review: CS Friedman's When True Night Falls
September 30, 2002 (12:06 PM) ( link )

ADDED a review of CS Friedman's When True Night Falls, the second book in The Coldfire Trilogy. It was ok. I guess I'll read the third book--which seems to be shorter than the other two--but it's not as though I'm much looking forward to it.

Indeed, rather than reading the third book immediately, I think I'll start reading The Deathgate Cycle, starting with the first book (whose name momentarily slips my mind). I'm a bit leery of getting started on a major fantasy series that may compel me to finish even if I don't like it (much like Friedman's books, actually), but The Deathgate Cycle comes with such high recommendations that I feel a little better about trying it out than I otherwise would.

In contrast to all of this uncertainty, Robin Hobb's Mad Ship is still great--it's good in all the ways that Ship of Magic was good, although, like the beginnings of many of Hobb's books, the going is a little slow. I'm getting a bit impatient with the pace of the whole series--I know that The Farseer Trilogy didn't really start picking up until the middle of the second book (after which it became a crazy rush to the end), but I sort of wish things would start speeding up in The Liveship Traders too. Plus, I want Malta to get it for being such a spoiled, annoying brat.