City of Stone and Silence

The mystery keeps getting more and more interesting.

This world is so fascinating and I loved the addition of Tori's story in this installment. I'm super curious what happens in the next book and how everything ties up.

Executive Summary: I enjoyed this, but not as much as the first one, and not nearly as much as his Shadow Campaigns series.

Audiobook: YA books seem to love to do multiple narrators. I've found it a bit of a mixed bag. As both protagonists are female, I didn't really find it necessary to have distinct narrators for each POV. However both narrators were fine.

Catherine Ho returns as Isoka, while Nancy Wu was added to read Torrie's chapters. Both read at a good pace and we recorded at a good volume. While the narration doesn't make this a must listen for me, it's definitely a solid option.

Full Review
I'm not generally a fan of YA books, but I'm a big fan of Django Wexler after thoroughly enjoying his Shadow Campaign series.

I thought the first book of this series started a bit slow, but picked up by the end. This book was a bit similar because we're introduced to a new POV, Torrie and for me her early chapters were kind of slow.

Isoka's chapter picked right up where we left off in the last book so I was a lot more engaged in those from the start. I did find Torrie's chapters to get a lot more interesting by the middle of hte book and by the end I was enjoying each of them about equally. If anything I maybe enjoyed the end of Torrie's chapters the most.

I will say the YA romance was a bit sappy at times, but I guess that's because I'm not the target demographic. For me I'm most interested in the world building. The ancient technology and the really cool magic system.

We got some additional details about the Ghost ship in this book, but not a great deal. It was enough to keep me interested in story though.

Overall I thought this book was enjoyable enough, but not quite as good as the last one or his previous adult series.