Great googly moogly! This story is relentless. Chuck knows how to keep you ripping through his yarn, and just when you think you've got the entire thing figured out (yet you're scratching your head 'cause there's a hundred pages still to go), he pulls a fast one and and leaves you scrambling, muc...
The word "hisses" 17 times. Used too many times in Mockingbird too. Although this time it didn't always describe how someone said something: "no she hissed". Kept track just out of curiosity. (And to sorta be an a-hole) "growl" 13 times. Don't recall this one being a distraction in previous books...
It was difficult to tell the procession of the story, which has a world-tour feeling similar to a James Bond film, should 007 visit underground caverns and Atlantis in addition to the standard tourist locations. However, I felt lost during some location transitions and had a hard time remember wh...
This is one of those times when a second book in a trilogy surpasses the first. I can see now that Under The Empyrean Sky was the basic introduction to the characters, the world, and the situation they are living in. Blightborn is where the real action begins. I just can't rate it higher becau...