{"id":9598,"date":"2023-01-20T20:07:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T00:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=9598"},"modified":"2023-01-26T21:19:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T01:19:35","slug":"book-review-the-order-of-eternal-sleep-by-sc-mendes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/book-review-the-order-of-eternal-sleep-by-sc-mendes\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Order of Eternal Sleep by S.C. Mendes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Order of Eternal Sleep <\/span><\/i>by S.C. Mendes<\/span><\/p>\n

Blood Bound Books, 2022<\/span><\/p>\n

ISBN: 9781940250489<\/span><\/p>\n

Available: Paperback, Kindle edition\u00a0(\u00a0Amazon.com<\/a> )<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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This is the sequel to S. C. Mendes’s 2017 novel, <\/span>The City<\/span><\/i>. You must read The City <\/em>first.<\/span>The Order of Eternal Sleep <\/span><\/i>will make no sense otherwise.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Order of Eternal Sleep<\/span><\/i> does a good job keeping the story going, but it’s a very different book from the first.\u00a0 Almost all of the book takes place aboveground in San Francisco: the City that made the first book so spectacular barely shows up.\u00a0 The story is a LOT more involved, with multiple plot threads, to the point that it gets confusing on occasion.\u00a0 The characters have switched: the secondary characters from the first book have become the prime characters, and vice versa.\u00a0 The changes don’t make it a bad book by any stretch. It’s still quite good, just different.\u00a0 Overall, this book feels like a bit of a “bridge” book to the next one, which is likely to be a smashmouth finish to the series.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Detective McCloud takes over as the main character, while the star of the first, Max Elliot, has a much smaller role.\u00a0 Ming also takes over as one of the primaries, and there are a host of secondary characters scattered throughout the book.\u00a0 The main point of the story is to set up some of the details on the Mara (those lizard-men) plot to take over the world, and it has a lot to it.\u00a0 There are Temples of Bone, nurseries of some sort, a black sun, and the Order.\u00a0 McCloud spends most of the book trying to piece the puzzle together, finding obstacles everywhere, as the Mara have no shortage of sleazebags in San Francisco willing to do their bidding.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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McCloud’s character undergoes a nice evolution from the first book. He becomes a much tougher character then he was in the first book, willing to use any methods to get answers.\u00a0 Ming has undergone a seismic shift as well, from a streetwise whelp to a hired assassin.\u00a0 It’s a good change, as there is no way nice guys are going to beat the Mara: you have to be nasty to slug it out with them.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Another change is that there <\/span>is<\/span><\/i> a group of people aboveground opposed to the Mara, called the Engineers of Light, although unfortunately, details on them are not forthcoming in the book.\u00a0 Hopefully, more about them will be in the next book.\u00a0 A good amount of the book feels like it is setting everything up for the next book, likely to be the climax to the series.\u00a0 This book still holds its own, it just doesn’t offer any resolution and leaves more questions then answers.\u00a0 It’s similar to how in the Harry Potter series <\/span>The Order of the Phoenix<\/span><\/i> was the transition book from the first four books to a blowout war in the last two.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bottom line: if you liked the first one, you’ll like this as well, but it’s likely to leave you hoping the next one comes out soon.\u00a0 If you’ve come this far in the series, you’ll be desperate to see how it ends.\u00a0 Recommended.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Reviewed by Murray Samuelson<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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