I‘ve finally hit Victoria Goddard‘s STARGAZY PIE, which is the main reason I downloaded this indie novel anthology. I‘ve often seen Goddard compared to Katherine Addison, and now I get why: she delivers interesting character dynamics and a complex, well-realized world to sift through and figure out. The first five chapters were exactly what I feel like.
Jemis Greenwing returned to Ragnor Bella from university in disgrace and has to adapt to reduced circumstances and former high society acquaintances avoiding him. It‘s an engaging story but I‘m reading it on my Kindle and finding the smaller page size distracting.
This story takes place after the Fall but (4.5 chapters in) I‘m still frustrated in trying to discover the fall of *what*?
pickI read this after reading the two books in Goddard's next series and it does suffer a bit from comparison as Goddard is clearly getting better and better.
There are still lots of great elements, an engaging cast of characters, lots of action. But it has a fairly chaotic plot. I'm not sure if I had read this book first if I would have read on in the series, which would have been a pity because I loved the rest of the series.
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