Lyam Crawford’s Reviews > Dreamsongs: A RRetrospective: Book Two > Status Update

Glass flower: cool idea, not entirely sold on the execution though. Kleronomas is mentioned a lot in the thousand works stories and seeing him finally on screen was interesting but I do feel like this was pretty much the only reason George wrote this one, doesn’t do anything particularly interesting for me and it falls short on the character front.

The skin trade: feel like this should have been a novel really, the characters are really fun and the premise is excellent but I feel like the reveal of the skinner at the end comes a bit out of left field as the story doesn’t really set up this supernatural threat and treats the werewolves in a more grounded way, loved this one though I think this is up there with a song for Lya

Under siege: the fortress bored me to tears, this was a fun proto Tyrion character with a very matrix-esq idea for time travel which has me convinced is the reason dislikes it so much in he little notation before hand. It’s not groundbreaking by any means but it’s fun and it’s a much better version of the fortress.