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The Manticore's Secret (Pt. 2)

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If you have read the Simoqin prophesies, then all I can tell you is this is as good as that, and in some ways better.

Samit Basu adds to the great(huge) list of charectrs that already exist in his previous book in a way that enhance the story rather than drown us in new names and species. All the favourite characters are back too. The style continues to be as irreverent as before, though there seems to be more of a spine in the story than the first book.

This book does not feel like the middle of a trilogy but the first book of a duology. Its as if, Samit Basu was not expecting to write a sequel when he finished his first book but decided to do that at a later date.

So, though reading Simoqin prophesies first is advisable, I think folks can sill get enjoyment out of this book on it's own.

I absolutely think that thes trilogy is amazing. the comedy is great, the story intriguing and the charachters are like real people in their neurotic behaviors. from lisping knights to blood sucking gnomes to scizophrenic shapeshifters... this book has it all

This second book in the gameworld trilogy (the first being Simoqin Prophecy) isn't quite as great as the first. The action comes on strong and thick, much like the first. But the characters seem less sympathetically drawn. Instead of liking the characters more because of their flaws, they seem to have become more distant. The book appears to suffer from the usual problem besetting the second book of a trilogy. You don't have the excitement of introduction to exotic worlds of the first book, nor the closure of the last. Its possible this book is best read as part of the trilogy rather than in isolation.