To Ride a Rising Storm

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To Ride a Rising Storm, Moniquill Blackgoose, 2026 fantasy novel sequel to To Shape a Dragon's Breath. On the one hand, it's always a relief and a delight to read a book where I want to keep turning the pages and I don't have to shove myself through by percent targets, and it was lovely to be back in the Nampeshiweisit world and see how Kasaqua has grown and how Anequs's relationships and friendships are going. On the other hand, I kind of feel like... not that much actually happened in this book, until [redacted] at the end? Like, we didn't really see any more of the world, or learn that much more about skiltakraft. I guess we got a (legendary) account of how the hurricane-turning was supposed to work. And I might have just been wrong in thinking it was going to be the kind of series (like say the Temeraire series or the Kushiel books) that explores the map of its AU world - I think Blackgoose's interest is focused on Wampanoag New England, which seems totally fair seeing as that's her own people. And I liked the new characters. (But they're all so talky! Everyone stop philosophizing and concretize your conflicts please! Like, some of this could play out symbolically!) Also though just to be clear I would happily read another one or three or five or ten of these, and I really did appreciate what Blackgoose did with the relationship arcs, good stuff.