Sin Eater
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"I SHALL BAPTIZE YOU, SIR, AND MY BAPTISM WILL BURN YOUR FOLLY AND FLESH AWAY."A year has passed since Auric Manteo descended into the haunted depths of a Djao ruin to return a lethal artifact, only to face down a bloodthirsty, imprisoned god. Now his daughter Agnes comes to bring him back to the capital with promises of hidden secrets finally revealed.But the city decays, poisonous disorder is rife, and whispered prophecy foretells of cataclysm and doom. Summoned by their no-longer human queen, Auric and Agnes are commanded to carry out an impossible task, one that can be accomplished only with the mysterious blade Szaa'da'shaela, gifted to Auric on a lunatic's whim. Can Auric and his daughter survive a journey fraught with blood, menace, and madness? And can they pay the price demanded by a being every bit as evil as the Aching God?Sin Eater is the sequel to 2018's widely praised Aching God and book 2 of the Iconoclasts Trilogy.
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2 primary booksIconoclasts
Iconoclasts is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2018 with contributions by Mike Shel.
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3.5 out of 5 stars
Sin Eater shook me from the book rut I'd been in for months. I was struggling, in particular, with Book #2s in series that could not recapture the magic of their predecessors. Although I wasn't as enthralled with this one as I was with Aching God, I still flew through it and enjoyed the ride.
Shel introduces several new characters for Auric's team and although the stakes are higher this time around, the story is not able to inject an appropriate level of urgency into the proceedings. Adventure/questing elements from the first book seem dampened this time around and the new POVs prove a bit flat.
Luckily, the worldbuilding remains strong, the writing flows nicely, and the ending is satisfying enough to leave me excited for what's to come in the third and final book in the trilogy.
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Meh.
Everything good about the 1st book is here. Everything bad about the 1st book is here. You might say that this is the 1st book rewritten as the 2nd book. new quest new characters, all the same plot points.
1st Book 2nd Book Auric at home Called to League\Queen Given Quest Long Journey over Land and Sea Visit Temple above God area Kill God Skip back with League
I feel like i would like these books a lot more if there was a bit more misdirection or less foreshadowing.
I will be talking about Sin Eater on Libromancy Podcast on 1/30/22
