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chirson's review
3.0
Not too much to say about this chapter - it felt mostly transitory, though with some plot progression and good characterisation happening in the background. Still, I feel like some authors have a much better handle on one character than another, and Diane and Micah (as well as Rafe) in particular can sound different from one installment to the next: perhaps unavoidably so. On top of that, some explanations / inner monologues sound like echoes of information we already have from earlier parts, which can become annoying.
That said, the series is still giving me intense chocolate craving (I wish I still lived in a larger city, where going out for quality, luxury chocolate was an option - here there are places with chocolate, but I haven't so far found the experience to be particularly memorable). That, and I can't wait to read what happens next (I'm glad I'm mainlining it now rather than reading bit by bit).
Read this courtesy of NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
That said, the series is still giving me intense chocolate craving (I wish I still lived in a larger city, where going out for quality, luxury chocolate was an option - here there are places with chocolate, but I haven't so far found the experience to be particularly memorable). That, and I can't wait to read what happens next (I'm glad I'm mainlining it now rather than reading bit by bit).
Read this courtesy of NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
kikiandarrowsfishshelf's review
4.0
Micah has a brilliant conclusion, and then the poop hits the spinning blades.
macthekat's review
4.0
damn this is excellent! You know you are reading a great political intrigue when you are rooting for all sides and are nervous for everyone, least the plot actually unfold. I love hanging on the tender hooks with this series!
graculus's review
4.0
Tremontaine - episodes 9, 10 and 11 I'm still behind with this series, since the season finale (with more to come in October, thank the gods!) of Tremontaine has just been released, so I'm desperately trying to catch up.Of course, I could have caught up and read the whole thing by now if I hadn't been listening to the audiobook version of each episode, rather than reading it as text, but once I'd started with the series that way, it seemed wrong to stop midway through! The fact it's a 13-episode season and I've been reviewing episodes 2 at a time means I had to do a 3-episode review at some point, so today might as well be it.
In episode 9, 'Lies in Our Stars', Micah finally makes the breakthrough in her maths that she has been threatening to make for ages and discovers (much to her horror) that Kaab has been lying to her and Rafe. Since neither of them are particularly good liars, when she and Rafe meet up with Kaab by chance, she becomes suspicious that they have discovered the truth about the disinformation she's given them and is forced to tell her uncle that the method used to navigate across open water may have been discovered. All in all, a great episode for my favourite character (which is Micah, in case you were wondering, not that it's not that obvious from my previous reviews...).
In episode 10, 'Shadowroot', we get an inkling that things may be taking a decidedly deadly turn as Diane takes matters into her own hands in relation to dealing with her errant husband. Meanwhile, the swordsman who has been following Kaab on Diane's orders meets a sticky end as Kaab manages to combine the lessons she's been receiving from Vincent Applethorpe with her own past experience of combat. Rafe is looking for a place to open his school and makes Micah an offer to stay with him and teach mathematics, which just shows how little Rafe understands about teaching - Micah is clearly a genius at maths but that doesn't mean she'll be able to help anyone else understand it as well!
In Episode 11, 'Go and Tell the Morning Star', Kaab discovers some things about Diane's past (though I'd figured out just what was later to be revealed, as soon as the mention of Diane and her maid first came about...) and has to make a decision about what to do with that knowledge. Meanwhile Diane herself is still doing bad things but seems to also be having a tiny pang of conscience, which is novel, and Rafe finds that he needs to decide what is most important to him.
I can't wait to see how this all works out in the last two chapters, hoping that the characters I like most will survive, if not unscathed, since that seems an unlikely mercy from these authors!
In episode 9, 'Lies in Our Stars', Micah finally makes the breakthrough in her maths that she has been threatening to make for ages and discovers (much to her horror) that Kaab has been lying to her and Rafe. Since neither of them are particularly good liars, when she and Rafe meet up with Kaab by chance, she becomes suspicious that they have discovered the truth about the disinformation she's given them and is forced to tell her uncle that the method used to navigate across open water may have been discovered. All in all, a great episode for my favourite character (which is Micah, in case you were wondering, not that it's not that obvious from my previous reviews...).
In episode 10, 'Shadowroot', we get an inkling that things may be taking a decidedly deadly turn as Diane takes matters into her own hands in relation to dealing with her errant husband. Meanwhile, the swordsman who has been following Kaab on Diane's orders meets a sticky end as Kaab manages to combine the lessons she's been receiving from Vincent Applethorpe with her own past experience of combat. Rafe is looking for a place to open his school and makes Micah an offer to stay with him and teach mathematics, which just shows how little Rafe understands about teaching - Micah is clearly a genius at maths but that doesn't mean she'll be able to help anyone else understand it as well!
In Episode 11, 'Go and Tell the Morning Star', Kaab discovers some things about Diane's past (though I'd figured out just what was later to be revealed, as soon as the mention of Diane and her maid first came about...) and has to make a decision about what to do with that knowledge. Meanwhile Diane herself is still doing bad things but seems to also be having a tiny pang of conscience, which is novel, and Rafe finds that he needs to decide what is most important to him.
I can't wait to see how this all works out in the last two chapters, hoping that the characters I like most will survive, if not unscathed, since that seems an unlikely mercy from these authors!
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