The Consuming Fire by John Scalzy (The Interdependency #2)

The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Jacket Blurb:  The Consuming Fire —the sequel to the 2018 Hugo Award Best Novel finalist and 2018 Locus Award-winning The Collapsing Empire—an epic space-opera novel in the bestselling Interdependency series, from New York Times bestselling author John Scalzi

The Interdependency—humanity’s interstellar empire—is on the verge of collapse. The extra-dimensional conduit that makes travel between the stars possible is disappearing, leaving entire systems and human civilizations stranded.

Emperox Grayland II of the Interdependency is ready to take desperate measures to help ensure the survival of billions. But arrayed before her are those who believe the collapse of the Flow is a myth—or at the very least an opportunity to an ascension to power.

While Grayland prepares for disaster, others are preparing for a civil war. A war that will take place in the halls of power, the markets of business and the altars of worship as much as it will between spaceships and battlefields.

The Emperox and her allies are smart and resourceful, as are her enemies. Nothing about this will be easy... and all of humanity will be caught in its consuming fire.


Read for September book group.

Read as an audio book because, it's WILL WHEATON! Best narrator ever. Or certainly right up there.

Jacket blurb summarize the book quite well so I won't rehash.

I will admit to being somewhat confused for the first half of the book - my own fault. I kept getting this series mixed up with Android's Dream. I don't know why my brain wanted to mush Androids Dream with the Interdependency, but it did. Quite annoying. And confusing.

So I spent the first part of the book just tying to figure out who was whom and what the heck was going on. Then I started to get a bit fidgety and thought about skipping to the end. And that's when our fine characters took a little jaunt to a far flung star system and things became very interesting indeed. Like, that is frickin' COOL! interesting. And after that it was hard to step away.

The ending was awesome. Simply, awesome.

A great second installment (despite confusing myself) and I'm looking forward to the next book.



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