At the end of a conversation, an encounter, whatever, he’ll say something like, “I didn’t realize until later that this conversation was significant.” It happens enough times that I started rolling my eyes at the text. I don’t know if there is a name for this phenomenon, but several times, Peter does what I now think of as a half backward foreshadow. Not hilarious: Peter trying to foreshadow his own narration. That was one of many moments I found hilarious. In fact, Peter Grant, the lead character and narrator, pretty much tells you, the reader, that starting with this story is a bad idea. He’s still determined to outsmart all of them, and there’s a lot of chasing, cat and mouse, magic, and smartassery.Ībove all: if you haven’t read the prior books, starting with this one is a terrible idea. The ideal cover quote for this book would be, no question, “Everything Happens So Much” ( tm Horse eBooks).Īs bland a summary as I can give: Peter, Nightingale, Guleed, and the others working together to stop The Faceless Man have to…stop The Faceless Man, and have some concrete plans to do so. There are massive ups and downs, with hardly any pause to the action, but in the end I arrived at a place nearly identical to where I started.
Reading this book is like riding a roller coaster, the kind which start by going from a full stop to 100mph out of the gate. The plot starts, throttles up to “I can’t comfortably open my eyes” speed and doesn’t stop until the end, with one or two rests in the middle that last maybe a chapter, usually less.
There is so much that if I attempted to recap it, even with the broadest of summaries, the text would be miles wide and tens of thousands of words long. I finished this book and thought to myself, “What the hell just happened?”
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