Bryan Applegate’s Reviews > Serpent Mage > Status Update

This fourth in the series is more poetic than predecessors. I'm racing through mensch chapters, but only just. Tension between two older factions has never been stronger, and the world building concludes with this fourth world of water. Still as captivating as ever and delivering answers and settling storyline only halfway through. Loads more narrative devices introduced, too. Such clever pacing!

Fresh, operatic, how DO they keep it moving? Read if you love footnotes that use extra fantasy to further explain the fantasy.