![]() ![]() If you cut their sections out of Book 2 entirely and pinned them to the start of Book 3 or 4 or whenever they meet the main character again, it would have not broken the flow of the main character’s sections in this book at all. But that they’d all been put into stasis mode with some token activity until the main character could get back to them later. The non-main character sections feel like they were purely there as an afterthought to set up a later book. ![]() ![]() And so now, despite the trials of Book 2, it feels as though the MC is at back at the same place progression-wise they were at the end of Book 1. I suppose the shorter time would not have bugged me as much if it felt like the overall story or main character had advanced more in Book 2 than solving the immediate problem presented by the cliffhanger ending of Book 1. The ‘Primal Hunter’ only shaved less than an hour off of Book 1’s 20hr runtime for their own Book 2. The ‘Cradle’ series went up in length over time. 26hrs 44 minutes in Book 1 vs only 13hrs 10mins in Book 2, while the author talks on social media about currently working on Book 5 and 7. I feel like it violates the principle of “Start as you mean to go on” a fair bit. It’s such a shame this book - ‘Silence’, Book 2 of the ‘Unbound’ series - is less than half the length of Book 1. Far too short continuation of Book 1, but it would have made a worthy Part 1 of a Book 2 ![]()
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