The Consuming Fire

I was surprised I enjoyed this second in the Interdependency trilogy. It had a lot more exposition and was more space opera-ish than The Collapsing Empire, two things that usually bother me. It had a lot of court intrigue which at first, I found off-putting, but I was quickly sucked into it and actually enjoyed it. The exposition I actually didn't mind because Scalzi recounted his world building with it, and since it's been three years since I read Empire, it was quite welcome. I did find it a little less impressive than the first book, as is often the case in the second book of a trilogy, but overall, I'd say Scalzi hit another home run with this installment.

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