Readers are allowed to continue this journey with Moon as he shares his uncertainties, triumphs, and losses. I appreciate that Moon is still learning and still wary, even though he is now the consort to the sister-queen of Cloud Indigo. Readers learn how tenuous the ties between various courts can be and how the smallest things can be perceived as insults and power plays to force a rival’s hand. While in-fighting was common in the last book, in this book, they have to contend with another court, which sheds even more light on how Raksura are expected to behave with one another. Wells introduces new and fascinating races such as the waterlings in this installment, continuing this flair that feels fresh and original. Raksuran politics continue to be a complex weave of laws. I am still charmed by this story of the Raksura and the world they live in. However, they are able to help the colony scry for their missing seed which leads Moon on a dash to retrieve it. The neighboring court is unable to provide them with another seed. This leads them to seek out the assistance of another Raksuran court. Upon arriving there, they soon find out that the tree is dying because its heartseed has been stolen. After an attack on the colony, the Cloud Indigo court moves back to the place where their lineage started, a mountain-tree nestled in the forest. The readers experience the world as Moon experiences it, learning as he learns, which means that nothing feels like filler.īook 2 picks up almost immediately after The Cloud Roads. Because of Moon’s ignorance of much of the Raksuran mores, following him through this book is perfect. In this story, we meet Moon, a Raksura who’s spent most of his years living among groundlings after the destruction of his court when he was a young child. They are a matriarchal race of people with complex court laws. Readers are introduced to the Raksura in The Cloud Roads, a shapeshifting race that possess both a draconic form and a groundling form.

I want to finish up the main trilogy as well as the short stories in preparation for the upcoming fourth book in the series, The Edge of Worlds. Wells presented a wonderfully creative world with races who fall outside of human norms. This year, I said that I was going to continue this series.

Last year, the first book in this series, The Cloud Roads, was easily one of my top reads for 2015.

Narrator: Christopher Kipiniak | Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins | Audiobook Publisher: Audible Studios (January 10, 2012) | Whispersync Ready: Yes Information: Website | Twitter | Goodreads Publisher: Night Shade Books (January 3, 2012) Audiobook Review: The Serpent Sea by Martha Wells

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