Arm of the Sphinx (The Books of Babel #2) by Josiah Bancroft

The story is filled with loads of complex, witty, funny dialogue and thought-provoking stuff, all without being overly grim. Quality thing

Oh well, I must say I expected far more fireworks here, given the way book 1 ended.

It starts out very slow, but admittedly picks up a great deal of pace from the middle-third onwards. Then towards the end, it becomes a bit boring up until the very last pages, where a small cliffhanger just ensures that you want to know the next stage of the adventures of Thomas Senlin.

I felt that not much happened. Book 2 was genuinely slower-paced than the first book. But I must say that an awful lot of world-building was done here.

The writing was top class as usual, very reminiscent of Patrick Rothfuss. The story is filled with loads of complex, witty, funny dialogue and thought-provoking stuff, all without being overly grim. Quality thing! The Hod King next!