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The Craft Sequence: The First Five Novels
by Max Gladstone
Maybe I shouldn’t have committed to reading all five of these books back to back. It took me two months, and I have forgotten what the hell else I was meant to be doing with my bookish life. But, on the other hand? This world deserves total immersion.
Would I recommend undertaking this marathon readthrough? Depends how you like to experience your sprawling SFF series. Reading all five in sequence, you catch every cross-reference, picking up more easily on the shape of the loose arc these books describe, and understanding perhaps the shape of things to come.
Individually, each book in the Craft Sequence is a funky little dip into Gladstone’s fascinating world. As a series, these books are a masterpiece. Each book is a different view on Gladstone’s orrery, and characters and events revolve into and out of view through each one. It’s only through the series as a whole you begin to understand the universe, its actors and its currents. It’s through these trans-instalment events that Gladstone evokes the power of the structures of the world, capitalism and commerce and bureaucracy in motion as powerful as gravity, as magic (which it in fact is).
I don’t know if I recommend reading all five books in a row, but if you’re thinking of reading one? Read all of them.
Would I recommend undertaking this marathon readthrough? Depends how you like to experience your sprawling SFF series. Reading all five in sequence, you catch every cross-reference, picking up more easily on the shape of the loose arc these books describe, and understanding perhaps the shape of things to come.
Individually, each book in the Craft Sequence is a funky little dip into Gladstone’s fascinating world. As a series, these books are a masterpiece. Each book is a different view on Gladstone’s orrery, and characters and events revolve into and out of view through each one. It’s only through the series as a whole you begin to understand the universe, its actors and its currents. It’s through these trans-instalment events that Gladstone evokes the power of the structures of the world, capitalism and commerce and bureaucracy in motion as powerful as gravity, as magic (which it in fact is).
I don’t know if I recommend reading all five books in a row, but if you’re thinking of reading one? Read all of them.