The Queen of Sinister by Mark Chadbourn
… The Queen of Sinister feels completely separate from The Devil in Green: it’s set in the same world, but features all new characters and at least for now is unconnected to the first novel (although the author’s afterword hints that everything will be pulled together in the trilogy’s final novel, The Hounds of Avalon). Unfortunately the novel’s brand new set of characters just isn’t as interesting… The first two chapters of the novel are actually some of the most powerful and emotionally gripping in the series so far, but after this promising start, The Queen of Sinister falls flat… Here’s hoping that Mark Chadbourn will regain command of his formula and pull it all together convincingly in the trilogy’s final volume, The Hounds of Avalon. Read the rest.
