This five-headed collaborative beast, as frantic as its first outing may be, somehow has a single heart and speaks with a single voice. Still, I look forward to further chapters in 5 Worlds. F rankly, t here’s too much to take in, and The Sand Warrior struggles to find a pace that is exciting but not skittish. We close with obvious gestures toward self-realization and resolution but also toward open-endedness and further complication. By novel's end, even more interwoven secrets, and even more evidence of Oona's special nature, are hinted at -a touch too much-and the last pages almost desperately try to springboard into the coming second volume ( out May 8). The effect is like starting Harry Potter with the Battle of Hogwarts: too much too quickly, and with one or two familiar moves too many. Reading the book, I often felt as if I was being introduced to places and cultures just as they were being wrecked. However, this strategy poses challenges in terms of pacing and structure. Bravely, The Sand Warrior tries to fill in all that detail on the fly it foregoes the usual expository business of front-loading its mythos with a prologue, instead picking up backstory on the go.
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