James Latimer’s Reviews > Hollow Empire > Status Update

This book is at once the same as the first (which is great, because I loved that book) but also different (which is great, because I've already read it). It's history repeating, but in a city and to people changed by the first book. Innocence is lost, but that doesn't mean they aren't still fighting for it.

That sense of innocence the characters had in the first has been well and truly shattered and has not recovered here...which is a bit of a shame, but makes for a gripping, perilous tale.

By the way the intrigue in this has leveled up from checkers to 3D chess. :o

Wait, did I just catch an Easter egg?

This is not 560 pages it is going so fast! The new characters are so good and the trouble they're getting in already...my poor heart!