Shattered Pillars

”To say a thing is to make it so.” I am occasionally told that my reviews are mean and that I rarely say good things about books. In an attempt to counter this allegation, I’d like to begin with an affirmative statement: This book has a nice cover. Now, that was nice, wasn’t it? As to the important th......more

This book, the second in the series, did not let me down. So often the "middle child" of a trilogy is fundamentally lacking. But not so here, oh no. The characters you love return, and you're introduced to new ones that you begin to love as well. The plot moves forward, instead of spinning its wheel......more

4.5 stars I really enjoyed this book. There was so much going on and the it was written with a very different kind of intensity. Shattered Pillars essentially picks up where Range of Ghosts left off and continues to develop both the characters and the evolving storylines from there. While I really e......more

Sadly, I did not enjoy Bear's second novel set in her intriguing take on Earth's steppe nomads, as well as neighboring regions. While I adored the first book, Shattered Pillars suffered some of the the symptoms of second book syndrome: --New characters that the reader is not connected with, because t......more