The plot held my interest well and the pages in the book seemed to fly by. However, there is a connection eventually, and it’s a big one that I expect to be very relevant to the next book. In many ways it just feels like a short, diversionary story about a pretty likeable character from that first book. If you’ve read the first book, that description may make you wonder how it could possibly relate much to The Snow Queen at all. Most of the book is told in the first person as the character recounts his adventures, with some framing chapters in the third person. His brothers are missing after having gone in search of treasure themselves, and our main character goes off in search of them. This planet has a location called “World’s End”, where people go off seeking treasure, but many never return. (Character name only in the spoiler tags: BZ Gundhalinu.) He’s gone to another planet to muddle through his rather messed-up life. We follow one of the characters who had left Tiamat at the end of the previous book. It’s very different from the first book in both setting and style.Īt half the length of the first book, this story is simpler and more focused.

I enjoyed it quite a lot, although maybe not for the same reasons I had enjoyed The Snow Queen. World’s End is the second book in the Snow Queen Cycle. Which I need to read immediately :)Ī wonderful story with an embarrassing-to-read-in-public cover. I ended up having a great deal more knowledge and respect for BZ and I really hope he makes an appearance in The Summer Queen. It's absolutely wonderful to see how his character develops, and it's wonderful to see him dig deep inside himself to fight the madness. The world itself is actually pretty messed up and as he gets closer to Fire Lake he begins to go mad. He sets out to find them along with another Sybil named Song. His brothers, who he is not close to because they're assholes, have disappeared in a place called World's End. After some trouble at work, he's encouraged to take a leave of absence. Perhaps it's unimportant overall but it's such a great story.īZ leaves Tiamat even though he's very much in love with Moon, who is the new Summer Queen. I did think that this was an insignificant part of the overall story. Instead I got a completely solid sequel to The Snow Queen. I think I was judging it by the totally tacky 80s cover so I was expecting it to be kind of cheesy.

I was genuinely surprised by how much I loved this book.

The snow queen by joan d vinge