by Harry Connolly
Recommended for: masochists. Fans of Child of Fire The next in my streak of reading books I’d rather not be reading. Remember when I said, “I don’t know why I do this to myself, I really don’t”? I still don’t know the general answer, but in this particular instance, I suspect the combination of ser...
DNF. As much as I enjoyed Child of Fire, I spent quite a bit of the book wondering what the hell was going on. After the initial WTFery the book was thoroughly engaging. Game of Cages hasn't moved past the WTF stage and I've spent about a hundred pages waiting for someone to explain something. Anyth...
In this book, Ray Lilly is picked up at his working class job by Catherine because the twenty palaces society has work for him to do. She is not impressed to drive an hour out of her way to pick a wooden man. A big auction is happening for a predator in the tiny town of Washaway and Ray and Cather...
The first third is incredibly slow and introduces some characters I never manages to distinguish between, but the last third was more of what I enjoyed from the first book in the series.
Confusing at times, but fantastic. Very gritty and even darker than the first book. Not for the faint of heart, indeed. Ray is my hero, even at his thuggiest! I have no qualms against giving this book 4.5/5.0 stars. Reviewed for Bitten by Books: http://bittenbybooks.com.
Ray Lilly has (luckily? surprisingly?) survived the events at Hammer Bay in Child of Fire and is working the late shift at a supermarket when someone shows up from the society to bring him along on a job. A little one, but a job nonetheless...Then he finds out that Catherine's not a peer, she's an i...
The formula was exactly the same in this book as the last, but it was still interesting.
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