Winterkeep

[psocoptera]

Winterkeep, Kristin Cashore, fourth in the Graceling series. I wrote about Bitterblue, the third one, here. Winterkeep was fine, I mean, I enjoyed it. Some things paid off less than I thought they might but it all hung together more or less. It's possible that I would have enjoyed it more as a standalone rather than being set in the Graceling world - I mean, we wouldn't have had Bitterblue's backstory to lean on for her character development, but I continue to have the problem that I love Katsa best (who is not in this book at all) and so in a story world with Katsa, no matter what was going on part of me was always thinking "but what would Katsa do, if she was there". "Oh, it would be cool if Katsa - ". I accept that not every Graceling book needs to be a Katsa book in the same way that not every DC movie needs to be about Wonder Woman, but on the other hand that one was so much better than the rest of them! (Huh, which reminds me that there was another one of those I still haven't seen...) Anyways, I thought it had some nice moments and was pleasantly readable once I got going. I still hope Cashore's next book is another weird one-off like Jane Unlimited though.

Comments

[isis]

Huh, I had no idea there was another book in the series! Time to track it down.

[glynhogen]

If you have not seen Wonder Woman 1984, I assure you that you do not need to do so.

[ruthling]

I didn't know the series continued, either. I remember sort of liking it, but it makes sense I would not have paid any attention since it wasn't in my top reads whatever year.