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Dead Tired 2 (Dead Tired #2)
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This is second in a series and doesn't even get its own title. Read in order.
This one changes some things, structurally. There are many more non-Harold PoV chapters and one of them wore on me a ton. Rem is a mantis girl and she's all senseless aggression and denial. I found her aggravating every time she was on stage and that magnifies by a thousand when it's her PoV. I have no idea why Alex would want to train her to be a butler when she has no desire, no aptitude, and no hands (mantis people just have scythes for forearms).
The story itself is still fun. And training Limpet by putting her in charge of the invading undead army was an interesting wrinkle. I feel like the pace was good, even with the PoV shifts dragging the story out. Plus I loved some of the groups encountered. The good-natured, semi-woke bro sect was a hoot, for example.
I'm going to call this 4½ stars that I'm rounding up because I'm still all-in for the story. Harold's casual apathy balanced by his deep curiosity is a great story tension and him stepping back on the action so Limpet can learn added some actual dramatic tension for the action; and not least because you suspect he'd let her fail fatally if circumstances rose to that level. We know he can resurrect the dead (in addition to raising undead) but we're never really sure if he'd bother. So the tension isn't neutered by his presence like it might otherwise have been.
A note about Chaste: There's zero prurient content and no scope for shenanigans. So this is pretty chaste.
This one changes some things, structurally. There are many more non-Harold PoV chapters and one of them wore on me a ton. Rem is a mantis girl and she's all senseless aggression and denial. I found her aggravating every time she was on stage and that magnifies by a thousand when it's her PoV. I have no idea why Alex would want to train her to be a butler when she has no desire, no aptitude, and no hands (mantis people just have scythes for forearms).
The story itself is still fun. And training Limpet by putting her in charge of the invading undead army was an interesting wrinkle. I feel like the pace was good, even with the PoV shifts dragging the story out. Plus I loved some of the groups encountered. The good-natured, semi-woke bro sect was a hoot, for example.
I'm going to call this 4½ stars that I'm rounding up because I'm still all-in for the story. Harold's casual apathy balanced by his deep curiosity is a great story tension and him stepping back on the action so Limpet can learn added some actual dramatic tension for the action; and not least because you suspect he'd let her fail fatally if circumstances rose to that level. We know he can resurrect the dead (in addition to raising undead) but we're never really sure if he'd bother. So the tension isn't neutered by his presence like it might otherwise have been.
A note about Chaste: There's zero prurient content and no scope for shenanigans. So this is pretty chaste.
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