jaylee’s Reviews > The Strength of the Few > Status Update

Finally the plot has begun plotting in the last 80-100 pages or so. Which to me begs the question, were the first 400+ pages of this book really necessary? Anyway, hopefully things keep picking up from here bc this book has been incredibly slow-paced and I wasn’t really vibing with that

Simultaneously liking and disliking this one. It’s interesting and the writing is good but it’s really slow-paced, nothing is happening and everything is taking forever. Like in the Obiteum storyline, Vis left Caeror almost 200 pages ago but has made basically no progress. The Luceum storyline up to now has been 100% unnecessary. In Res, it all just seems like filler. Half of the book so far could’ve been cut.

We’re finally getting more explanation of the magic system which I love bc that was one of my biggest gripes with the first book. But I’m a bit annoyed that more than 200 pages in we still don’t have a lot of answers to the mysteries of the first book, like how has it been 2 months and Vis still hasn’t spoken to Veridius? Why hasn’t Vis asked Caeror about Lanistia or about Caeror’s journey/death/suicide??