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Sep 15, 2015
This is the second book to be published in Gladstone's Crafts Series. It starts promisingly enough with some razor sharp demons rising from a reservoir that is an important source of clean water for a desert city. Two Serpents is an important book in Gladstone's mythology because it tells about when man started working with gods to rebuild a world devastated by their former conflict. But this point is only apparent in the last 15 pages of the book. There were narrative weaknesses in Gladstone's first published book and they widen in this one. Most of the story is wasted on a highly unbelievable, and boring, infatuation by our hero with a woman who is very good at, of all things, parkour. There are descriptions of dead things of vast size but the narrative never gets the scale quite right so you wonder how the characters standing close to the dead thing can see all of it when it's supposed to be as big as a city. BTW, that desert city that is the central location of this book? It's located right next to an ocean of water. All kinds of "craft" is used to create clean water inland but apparently no one thought of a desalination plant.