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The Rosewater Insurrection (The Wormwood Trilogy, #2)
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Rec. by: Previous work
Rec. for: Rebels
I actually did things in the right order for a change, this time, having read Rosewater, the first volume in Tade Thompson's Wormwood trilogy, before checking out this one. I recommend you do the same— some series can be read out of order, but I don't think this is one of them.
The Rosewater Insurrection begins carefully—Thompson eases us back in to his chaotic milieu, letting us get used to the unique Nigerian city of Rosewater again before showing us why this installment has its more violent title.
But don't worry—things get much more intense, very quickly, and there is in fact an insurrection. At least one.
Thompson brings forward characters who were only peripheral to Rosewater, and introduces a number of new ones. Kaaro, who was so central to the first book, is relegated to the background of The Rosewater Insurrection. Which is as it should be, I think—the new faces freshen up the plot, while remaining connected to the old through the city of Rosewater and through Wormwood, the alien presence at the city's heart.
Tade Thompson also introduces a powerful new antagonist in this installment, one for which he laid the groundwork in the first book. I don't want to go into too much detail about that new enemy, but I think it's okay to mention that Alyssa Sutcliffe is not what she seems...
I only noticed one significant error, though it was repeated two or maybe three times late in the book—I'm pretty sure those places where Thompson uses "grapheme" (the smallest functional unit of a writing system) should really be "graphene" (an allotrope of carbon that has unique material properties). That was about it for gaffes, though.
I did struggle a bit with this review, trying to balance between revealing too much and being too cryptic. I hope I struck the right balance for you, because The Rosewater Insurrection really is worth reading—an exciting and enormously satisfying middle third for the Wormwood trilogy, which concludes in The Rosewater Redemption.
Rec. for: Rebels
I actually did things in the right order for a change, this time, having read Rosewater, the first volume in Tade Thompson's Wormwood trilogy, before checking out this one. I recommend you do the same— some series can be read out of order, but I don't think this is one of them.
The Rosewater Insurrection begins carefully—Thompson eases us back in to his chaotic milieu, letting us get used to the unique Nigerian city of Rosewater again before showing us why this installment has its more violent title.
But don't worry—things get much more intense, very quickly, and there is in fact an insurrection. At least one.
Thompson brings forward characters who were only peripheral to Rosewater, and introduces a number of new ones. Kaaro, who was so central to the first book, is relegated to the background of The Rosewater Insurrection. Which is as it should be, I think—the new faces freshen up the plot, while remaining connected to the old through the city of Rosewater and through Wormwood, the alien presence at the city's heart.
Tade Thompson also introduces a powerful new antagonist in this installment, one for which he laid the groundwork in the first book. I don't want to go into too much detail about that new enemy, but I think it's okay to mention that Alyssa Sutcliffe is not what she seems...
I only noticed one significant error, though it was repeated two or maybe three times late in the book—I'm pretty sure those places where Thompson uses "grapheme" (the smallest functional unit of a writing system) should really be "graphene" (an allotrope of carbon that has unique material properties). That was about it for gaffes, though.
I did struggle a bit with this review, trying to balance between revealing too much and being too cryptic. I hope I struck the right balance for you, because The Rosewater Insurrection really is worth reading—an exciting and enormously satisfying middle third for the Wormwood trilogy, which concludes in The Rosewater Redemption.
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August 5, 2024
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August 17, 2024
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