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So, I’ve finished book 2 of the Cradle series, a fair while since I finished Cradle and overall, it was fine. I’ve heard that while the first few books are ok, the later books are fantastic and look, maybe it’ll be a while before I get around to every book in the series, I would think that I would continue on with the series eventually as I am interested in it. This book was good enough to read for sure, though I’m not super invested in anything just yet.

The world here is pretty interesting and it was expanded a fair bit here, well beyond Sacred Valley, which is where book 1 took place. A large section of the world is explored, and we learn a fair bit more about the other societies in the world. A huge chunk of the book does just take place in one settlement, which was fine by me. As it is told from the characters� perspective, who have little interest in things like culture or history, so there isn’t much of that here. It’s not detrimental to the story as it is irrelevant to the characters and plot, although I would like to have learnt a bit more about things that do not directly correlate with the character. Still, I do like the way the whole “magic� system functions and how it has developed. It’s not fancy or anything, but it builds engagement with the character and makes the reader want to have Lindon succeed.

The characters are ok here. Lindon’s fine, he’s not overly compelling to follow around, though he is not boring either. I suppose there is not really anything that makes him super special and there are far better written protagonists out there in my view. I do find Yerin to be a bit more interesting to follow around, though there isn’t much from her POV. She contrasts with Lindon who is the more typical weak character that gets frowned upon by everyone. Eithan was also fairly interesting to follow as he remains fairly mysterious for most of this book until the very end, where the sort of big reveal comes.

The plotting was alright here. Nothing blew me away exactly, but I suppose that it remained decent the whole way through. The pacing was fine throughout, though in this book there are some odd chapters that are sort of interludes that sometimes are somewhat jarring. They seem to add some more context, but I don’t know how useful they are to the main story for now.

Those are really all my thoughts on this. Overall, it was good, but it also wasn’t that much more than that for me. 6/10