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Farilane (The Rise and Fall, #2)
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I am so glad that I backed the kickstarter campaign so that I could read this early! Since it's not out yet my review will be intentionally vague.
The Rise and the Fall trilogy is a bridge of sorts between the Legends of the First Empire and Riyria series. The events of this book take place centuries after Book One of the trilogy, NOLYN. That one had been in a setting centuries after the first series. Riyria is in the far distant future. To be honest, I wasn't all that crazy about LOTFE, but I really liked Nolyn and love Riyria.
So this one? This was highly enjoyable!
Farilane was an excellent character. She was very smart, obsessive-compulsive, fearless, and overall plucky. She loved to cause discomfort and consternation in other characters, and some of her irreverent comments gave me the giggles. I enjoyed tagging along with her.
Throughout this book was hidden a treasure trove of Easter eggs for the other two series plus Nolyn. I loved them. And it was so interesting to see how warped the facts of history had become by the present time frame. After reading the six Riyria books several times I know that the facts aren't done morphing into unrecognizable history yet.
One final obscure observation, the first paragraph of the Afterword? Yes, I could relate.
I'm looking forward to the third book.
The Rise and the Fall trilogy is a bridge of sorts between the Legends of the First Empire and Riyria series. The events of this book take place centuries after Book One of the trilogy, NOLYN. That one had been in a setting centuries after the first series. Riyria is in the far distant future. To be honest, I wasn't all that crazy about LOTFE, but I really liked Nolyn and love Riyria.
So this one? This was highly enjoyable!
Farilane was an excellent character. She was very smart, obsessive-compulsive, fearless, and overall plucky. She loved to cause discomfort and consternation in other characters, and some of her irreverent comments gave me the giggles. I enjoyed tagging along with her.
Throughout this book was hidden a treasure trove of Easter eggs for the other two series plus Nolyn. I loved them. And it was so interesting to see how warped the facts of history had become by the present time frame. After reading the six Riyria books several times I know that the facts aren't done morphing into unrecognizable history yet.
One final obscure observation, the first paragraph of the Afterword? Yes, I could relate.
I'm looking forward to the third book.
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Apr 23, 2022 10:22PM
The next book is twice as long, he said.
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Yes. I'm really looking forward to it! Then hopefully Drumindor will be next!
Yes, I can't enough Royce and Hadrian.I need to see how the final version of Farilane turned out. Beta readers had a big debate over the ending, and the Nolyn final ending added the scene with Alina finding "the bread."
From what I read in the Afterword written by Robin, the ending will not change. And what an ending! She mentioned the various reactions from the beta readers, too :)
I thought it was very powerful as is; I'm curious if any little things got tweaked.
