The Gods of Vice: The Vengeance Trilogy, Book Two
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Rating this book was a complicated matter, though it delivered with one almighty knockout punch at the very end, there was a lot of dancing around each other which slowed the majority of the book down. I've said before that books in the middle of a series are hard things to pull off, as the arch is shallower than in stand alones, and you don't have the newness that the first book brings, or the satisfaction in the resolution the last one brings. What marks out a great middle book is ending up in a completely different place to where the reader assumes they are going to be when finishing the previous book. This is absolutely the case here (except, I had read the blurb on the back of book 3, and that give part of the game away, to the point at one stage I thought they'd made a typo on Book 3's cover.) The problem is all this really only happens in the last third, and the first two thirds just dragged. Based on the culmination alone I would have awards this a higher reading, but the book itself let the ending down.
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Rating this book was a complicated matter, though it delivered with one almighty knockout punch at the very end, there was a lot of dancing around each other which slowed the majority of the book down. I've said before that books in the middle of a series are hard things to pull off, as the arch is shallower than in stand alones, and you don't have the newness that the first book brings, or the satisfaction in the resolution the last one brings. What marks out a great middle book is ending up in a completely different place to where the reader assumes they are going to be when finishing the previous book. This is absolutely the case here (except, I had read the blurb on the back of book 3, and that give part of the game away, to the point at one stage I thought they'd made a typo on Book 3's cover.) The problem is all this really only happens in the last third, and the first two thirds just dragged. Based on the culmination alone I would have awards this a higher reading, but the book itself let the ending down.