The Sunforge

Ugh, I did not enjoy reading this book.  It is a mess of characters and mangled plots.  Reading the first book in the series, The Dawnhounds, only barely prepared me for this one.  Despite the fact that I only read the first book about month ago, I had the damnedest time trying to cognitively get from the end of that book to this one.  The timelines jump all over the place, new characters are introduced, and most of the chapters are so short, I wasn’t able to sit with any one plotline long enough for it to stick in my head.  The end has big flashback reveals that help piece together the world building, but it was too little too late.  I wanted to DNF this book so many times in the five days it took to read it.  I’m glad I kept with it though because now I can give an honest review.  This book is a 2025 Lambda Literary Award nominee.  If I was voting, it wouldn’t have been on my shortlist.

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