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A review by finestgreen
Goldenhand by Garth Nix
2.0
Meh.
"Okay, now the plot's going to start... hm, no. Okay, maybe now... no." -- me, for the first 80% of the book before realising that no, this *was* the closest thing to a plot we're going to get.
At first I thought the lazy, clumsy, repetitive callbacks to previous books throughout were just a heavy-handed way of making sure you remembered what happened, but eventually I realised they're there to trigger enough nostalgia that fans don't notice this is the book equivalent of empty calories.
Read it for completeness if you're a big fan of the series, but don't expect much.
"Okay, now the plot's going to start... hm, no. Okay, maybe now... no." -- me, for the first 80% of the book before realising that no, this *was* the closest thing to a plot we're going to get.
At first I thought the lazy, clumsy, repetitive callbacks to previous books throughout were just a heavy-handed way of making sure you remembered what happened, but eventually I realised they're there to trigger enough nostalgia that fans don't notice this is the book equivalent of empty calories.
Read it for completeness if you're a big fan of the series, but don't expect much.