Mageborn

Unfulfilling and expectd

While I enjoyed reading the original trilogy this book proved unsatisfying. It rather reminded me of an office potluck, filled with questionable foods that don’t make a cohesive meal and awkward dialogue between casual strangers forced to share space. The premise is plausible given the events in the previous books, but the various plot threads feel forced, as though they should each be their own, unrelated books. Maybe there was pressure to produce something, anything, to keep the world going, but I was very disappointed by the unexpected blah-ness of this read. The Tammy and Munroe threads were the only interesting parts of the book for me, and I found myself skimming through large chunks of writing to find something interesting happening. Overall the book reads like pieces of multiple short stories were thrown together in a common setting, shaken until they mixed without blending, and presented as a novel.