On the whole, there is less action than in the previous book, but more plot. True to Williams' plot-twisting style, these bring up new questions. Plotwise, the motivations of and divisions within the Grail Brotherhood are explored, and partial explanations of sleeping sickness are given. Light and the Grail project enters its final stages.Īs fits the second book in this series of four, some mysteries are solved and many more are discovered. Reality and Otherland start to feed off of each other as dark secrets come to The real world is packed with intrigue too, as the forces opposing the Brotherhood (both knowingly and unknowingly) plan and plot and move their pieces into position. It's a quest that will take them through a land of giant insects, Venice, Ancient Egypt, a twisted Kansas under invasion from decaying Oz, and other exotic, The intrusion and act to protect their secrets.įrightened and confused, the party's only chance for survival is to follow the quasi-metaphorical river that flows through each simulation, connecting the private domains of each member of the Brotherhood. It would be only a matter of time before the shadowy Grail Brotherhood, masters of Otherland, could discover In this playground for the rich, the reclusive, and the powerful, the small band was shocked to learn that it was trapped. Tad Williams explores global conspiracies surrounding a perfectly realized virtual world in the continuation of his Otherland saga.Īt the end of Otherland: City of Golden Shadow, Tad Williams had dumped most of his protagonists into the convincing virtual reality known as the Otherland. This book is Otherland: River of Blue Fire, which is the book after Otherland: City of Golden Shadow. Chromatic, already a reviewing fixture and well-known AfterY2k junkie, has sent us a quick review of the latest book in Tad Williams' Otherland series.
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