Review: Wrath of Empire
By EricMesa
- One minute read - 157 wordsWrath of Empire by Brian McClellan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I’m usually not a fan of the middle books in planned trilogies. They often can’t resolve anything because most trilogies are just one gigantic book split into three. While that’s also somewhat true in this book, McClellan has done a great job giving us a mini try/fail cycle that makes this book pretty satisfying on its own. We learn a TON about Ka-Poel. There’s also a good amount of character growth for Vlora and Ben Styke.
At the same time, as the middle book in a trilogy, there is a slight amount of characters spinning their wheels so that they don’t solve the problem too soon since there’s another book coming. However, as I said above, McClellan has done a good job making it so that there are still stakes.
I’m pumped to see how this second powder mage trilogy ends.