Arbie's Unoriginally Titled Book Blog
It's a blog! Mainly of book reviews.
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The Box of Red Brocade
This sequel to The Obsidian Mirror doesn't work quite as well as it's predecessor. There's more shenanigans with the mirror and split/shifting/uncertain loyalties and some surprises but it doesn't work well as a stand-alone book because it starts in the middle of events and finishes - in the middle of events.
It's abundantly clear that this isn't really a trilogy at all - it's one fairly long novel chopped into three chunks - the last of which I won't see for about a year. No doubt I will re-read books 1 and 2 when I get my hands on 3. I find this kind of thing frustrating; people can cope with long books as long as they aren't merely padded and there's no waffle here. It's very fast paced. Assuming volume 3 is approximately the same size as the other two, this totals to no more than roughly any two volumes of the Septimus Heap series which is aimed younger...
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