Sun of Suns 1) The Story
Did you enjoy the story? It is pretty much self-contained with decent closure, but also clearly has unfinished threads. Are you inclined to pick up any more books in the series to find out what happens next?
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I did pick up book 2 in the omnibus volume and will be reading it in the future. If I like that as well as I liked this one, I will get more.
I found it all rather dull, to be honest. I didn't particularly care about any of the characters, so wasn't involved with all the histrionics and angst over whether whatsitcalled nation was free or not.
It was competently told and decently written, just one that didn't engage me.
I thought the story was fine - a fairly rollicking ride that didn't try to do too much, but nothing groundbreaking either. Standard adventure fare. I don't have any complaints, but am also not especially excited by it. (I think 'story' is seldom the thing that excites me about a book, so don't read too much into that.)
A few days ago I finished Queen of Candesce, the next in the series. Unlike the first it follows just one character throughout rather than multiple storylines, but the person is Venera Fanning. You get to find out what happens after she cuts loose from Hayden at the end of book 1. Again in a change of pace, you don't get to travel between separate habitations, but everything happens on just one... except that that one is the oldest and largest of all of the habitations, and over the years has splintered politically into thousands of individual petty kingdoms, each about the size of a large house plus garden, but with its own jealously preserved customs and trading habits. It ends up being quite a claustrophobic world, for all its physical size. Venera learns right at the end of the book that Chaisson is not dead but was imprisoned following the battle at the end of book 1 - what will she do now?
We learn a little bit more about the wider picture outside Virga, but not much.
Worth reading if you liked the first book.