Rachel Bach “Honor’s
Knight” (Orbit, 2014)
For whatever reason, I somehow never got around to reading Fortune’s Pawn after its release in
2013. While it didn’t take the world by
storm, there was some good buzz about it, and so I decided to try out the
sequel.
Wow.
There’s lots of talk about books in the middle of a
series. They get baggy and saggy and bogged
down in trivial concerns. Too much scope
without enough action.
Bach seems to have found a way to avoid those problems. Leave a bunch of unanswered questions in the
first book. In book two, start answering questions while creating new
questions. And double down on action
sequences just so no one gets a chance to get bored.
This book was an absolute blast!
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