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Rated The Obelisk Gate 8/10

Once I actually focused on these books, they really are an easy read. That's not to say that the story itself was easy. Compared to the first book of this trilogy, I didn't find it as fulfilling. Maybe it's unfair to compare them, but it contained less of what I find interesting in scifi/fantasy, the searching and learning, and more of the things I find tedious in dystopian stories, endless politics. The introduction of the omniscient narrator was at first confusing and then just... annoying. Really, I was just impatient to get to the inevitable ending and then didn't find it very satisfying. Although at least it resolved a couple of questions of who was on which side of the ultimate goal. Onward to closure with book 3 and may there be more interesting events than a couple of very long bottle episodes.

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Published 2026-08-18 17:59 UTC · bridged from Atmosphere