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carolinethereader 's review for:
Tower Lord
by Anthony Ryan
WAS this my most disappointing sequel of the year? Probably.
3 stars isn't a bad rating but I gave Blood Song 5 stars when I read it last year. It was an excellent coming of age story with some interesting magical elements. I loved it. Tower Lord did not grab me in the same way.
Book one focussed on Vaelin whereas book two has four POVs. It was really disappointing that Vaelin's story took a backseat because I'd cared a lot about it in the first book. The other perspectives were interesting but it took me a long time to get into the story again.
My main problem was that each of the four perspectives had essentially the same narrative voice. There was nothing particularly distinctive about them apart from the physical distance between the characters. It was a shame. There's a chance this is exacerbated by the fact I listened to the audiobook and I didn't love the narrator, he was quite flat and paused for about five hours between sentences sometimes.
I'm intrigued by the story in a distant way. Maybe I will finish the series at some point in the future but I'm not super passionate about it at the moment.
3 stars isn't a bad rating but I gave Blood Song 5 stars when I read it last year. It was an excellent coming of age story with some interesting magical elements. I loved it. Tower Lord did not grab me in the same way.
Book one focussed on Vaelin whereas book two has four POVs. It was really disappointing that Vaelin's story took a backseat because I'd cared a lot about it in the first book. The other perspectives were interesting but it took me a long time to get into the story again.
My main problem was that each of the four perspectives had essentially the same narrative voice. There was nothing particularly distinctive about them apart from the physical distance between the characters. It was a shame. There's a chance this is exacerbated by the fact I listened to the audiobook and I didn't love the narrator, he was quite flat and paused for about five hours between sentences sometimes.
I'm intrigued by the story in a distant way. Maybe I will finish the series at some point in the future but I'm not super passionate about it at the moment.