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Taking place soon after the events of Cobweb Bride, this volume is once again a magnificent tribute to the art of fine writing, showcasing the author's unparalleled imagination.
Taking place on a grander scale that the one presented in Cobweb Bride, its characters are drawn in such a whimsical and rich way, that can only add more colour to the rich environment in which the story takes place.
In a mixture of occidental with oriental, with frontiers blurred and later on simply gone without a trace, Cobweb Empire manages to tell a familiar tale, of long lost traditions and mythology, but in its peculiar and very original voice.
In the first book, we were introduced to a number of very interesting characters, and I
confess that I especially loved Percy and the Black Knight. Although Claere _The doomed Infanta _ and Vlau, the Marquis, managed to leave me quite engrossed in their story.
Not only that, but the characters felt alive _ not an easy feat, since one of them was already dead! _, they had a fire to them!!
And I'm not only referring to the moment when Percy makes uses of a skillet... on the Black Night's head!
So yes, I was really looking forward to reading this second volume!
And if the plot and world building are most likely worthy of a five star rating, the characters _for me _ in this volume weren't...
There's this phrase in the book that pretty much sums the thing that made it impossible for me to fully connect with the characters and love them as I did in the first volume:
“This is all the stuff of poetry and minstrel song”
No one can deny, _least of all me _ that the way the characters are portrayed in this story couldn't be more in "agreement" with the tone of the story.
The thing is, I wanted more from them!
More feeling! More emotion!! It was like the characters were distanced from one another... and stiff... as beautiful ice statues... or yes, as a minstrel song that touches only the surface...
Regarding the relationship between Percy and the Black Knight, and although being aware of their social positions, I disliked the way Percy faded in comparison to the way she had been portrayed in the first book.
Then I missed Claere and Vlau... I really, really did!!
Truth is, all the other characters _although crucial to the story _ for all their peculiarities, felt almost all the same and not that interesting.
Even so, this was a masterful story, and after the way it ended I'm quite curious to see what is going to happen in the last volume.
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