Review copy provided by the publisher. Also, the author is a\nfriend of mine, and we share the same agent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is the sequel to The Perfect Assassin<\/em>. It’s not\nas crucial as some series to read the first one first, but there’s a lot of\nchewy worldbuilding grounding going on, so there’s a lot to be gained from\nreading them in order, and the first one is still perfectly well in print, so\nwhy not?<\/p>\n\n\n\n What it is not, however, is a series where you follow the\nsame protagonist throughout. Frankly, I love that about it. I love having a\ndifferent perspective, a completely different protagonist–although Amastan is\nstill a character in this one, he’s no longer center stage. His cousin Thana is\ntrying to make and keep her own reputation as an assassin in Ghadid. She’s fond\nof Amastan but sometimes frustrated with him, and always full of her own\nconcerns, her own ideas–her own love life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And Thana’s problems only start in the city of Ghadid. They\ntake her into the desert, on caravan trips, into empires, and beyond. Ghadid is\nThana’s heart, but the larger world is her canvas. She and acerbic healer Mo\nare sometimes working together, sometimes at cross purposes, but with a far\nlarger stage than either of them ever expected–and knowing Ghadid well from\nthe first book helps make the rest of it feel even more vivid and urgent. I had\nso much fun with this, and I highly recommend it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Review copy provided by the publisher. Also, the author is a friend of mine, and we share the same agent. This is the sequel to The Perfect Assassin. It’s not as crucial as some series to read the first one first, but there’s a lot of chewy worldbuilding grounding going on, so there’s a lot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-2629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bookses-precious"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2630,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions\/2630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}