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Echoes of Betrayal
May. 10th, 2023 01:15 pmThis is the third in the Paladin's Legacy series by Elizabeth Moon, the audiobook versions of which I've been powering through in recent weeks.
As with the previous one, this instalment carries on directly from number two, which make this series basically one really, really, really long book, rather than feeling like separate volumes of a connected set.
This makes it hard to find new things to say about it, since I've already mentioned loving the world and the characters, and very much enjoying spending time with them again, after a long break.
I loved the development of Stammel's arc in this one, as well as the deepening intrigue around the elves.
There was still the issue of there being an awful lot of characters going to different places and relating events already shown to different sets of people - it's always summarised or curtailed but the phrase "and so such-and-such-a-person told of how..." does get a bit wearing after a while.
I still enjoyed this book a lot, but there was the merest sense of diminishing returns, so I'm going to take a break before moving on to the next one (though it's already in my Audible library) and listen to something else for a bit first.
[Edit: It turns out I already listened to the audiobooks of the first three in this series around the time they came out in 2011-12 and completely forgot about it! Ah well - I've really enjoyed them and now there are two more I haven't heard before!]
As with the previous one, this instalment carries on directly from number two, which make this series basically one really, really, really long book, rather than feeling like separate volumes of a connected set.
This makes it hard to find new things to say about it, since I've already mentioned loving the world and the characters, and very much enjoying spending time with them again, after a long break.
I loved the development of Stammel's arc in this one, as well as the deepening intrigue around the elves.
There was still the issue of there being an awful lot of characters going to different places and relating events already shown to different sets of people - it's always summarised or curtailed but the phrase "and so such-and-such-a-person told of how..." does get a bit wearing after a while.
I still enjoyed this book a lot, but there was the merest sense of diminishing returns, so I'm going to take a break before moving on to the next one (though it's already in my Audible library) and listen to something else for a bit first.
[Edit: It turns out I already listened to the audiobooks of the first three in this series around the time they came out in 2011-12 and completely forgot about it! Ah well - I've really enjoyed them and now there are two more I haven't heard before!]
