ladygrey
Written on Apr 17, 2010
And yet, there is goodness and respite and peace as well. [a:Stephen R. Lawhead|28083|Stephen R. Lawhead|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1247321485p2/28083.jpg] seems to be exploring farther ideas of sovereignty which is interesting in the world he's set, but as often as he touches on them, he doesn't dive deep enough into it for my tastes. My other complaint is that I never like when the reader is smarter than the characters. There were things that Tegid wrestles through and barely figures out that seemed readily apparent to me early on. And it's never fun to read pages of a character trying to sort out what you already know.
I also realized that, while he brought back elements from the first book, this story did not go the direction I expected when I was still early in the first book.
Still, it's a good book with a good mythology.