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MY ⭐️ RATING: 4.75/5
Format: Kindle Whispersync
BOOK DESCRIPTION
The earth wants to swallow us whole…
Koli never planned to set foot outside his small village. He knew that beyond its walls lay a fearsome landscape filled with choker trees, vicious beasts and Shunned men. But when he was exiled, he had no choice but to journey out into this strange world where every moment is a fight for survival.
And it’s not just Koli’s life that is threatened. Whole villages just like his are dying out.
But Koli heard a story, once. A story about lost London, and the mysterious tech of the Old Times that may still be there. If he can find it, there may still be a way for him to change his own fate – by saving the lives of those who are left.
MY REVIEW
I absolutely loved The Book of Koli, so I knew I had to jump right into book 2. What took me by surprise is that the author went from a single first person narrative story, to a double first person narrative story, which now includes Spinner. This is an interesting choice, because making a change like this, mid-series, can backfire. However, this did not backfire at all and I thought it was great addition, Koli’s story reached a point where he, Cup and Ursala were in the same spot for a while, so it helped beef up the story, but also got to see part of Koli’s story from a different angle, while also telling Spinner’s story. The addition also came with another narrator on top of Theo Solomon returning, and Saffron Coomber did a phenomenal job. Both narrations were top tier and helped fall into the story with ease.
The similarities between The Walking Dead & The Book of Eli grow even more. In The Book of Eli, books are featured as being very important, and a certain book is the most important of all because of the power it holds over the people, in The Fall of Koli, there’s a line that suggests something similar, that it seems the books were destroyed on purpose to control the masses, which is what the antagonist in The Book of Eli tries to do, and I feel like may play a role in this as well. The TWD similarities is still mostly about the post apocalyptic nature of the story and how nature is the zombie. Like the later seasons of the show, the zombies are more secondary than a primary threat, and that’s the way this story is. Carey continues to show that the people that have survived are still the biggest threat to the living world.
“Oftentimes, stories have magic spells in them that twist the world into a daisy chain when they’re spoken. But every word’s a spell, or can be. Words are terribly strong when it comes to changing the world.”
One thing that I absolutely loved is the growth of all the characters, Cup was one of my favorites from book 1, and continued to be such a demanding force that gets better and better, Cup is such a interesting character because of her identity as a person being a person that is “crossed” or in our terms, trans. Her story is devastating but also uplifting to see the growth. But because of the new POV, there is a massive growth with Spinner, especially with the new light and understanding of her character. The banter between Monono, Cup, Ursala and Koli is terrific, there were many times that I couldn’t help but giggle at something that was said. I think that really helped with their development as well.
I absolutely enjoyed this, I do think I enjoyed book 1 more just because there was a bit more of a journey to it and most of Koli’s story is based in one spot for the majority of the book. But Spinner’s pov helped alleviate some of that with her story and some of the things that she had to endure and overcome. All in all, this series is not talked about enough and should be on everyone’s post apocalyptic list of reads to get to.
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