The Rot by Siri PettersenMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
The first book in this trilogy promised a huge shakeup for Book 2 with its diabolical cliffhanger ending, and now here we are on that second book with a distinctly divided narrative. Rime's POV keeps one side of the story rooted in the ymish world where the series began, but Hirka is now stuck in modern day Europe - England, to be exact. Though Hirka does quickly adapt to the strange ways of the modern world, it was her story that was the most interesting part of this book, because it plays out so differently from most other fantasy stories (there's a reason why I still have a soft spot for the 2013 Sleepy Hollow TV series, despite how off the rails the show became in the worst ways as it went on.) Whereas Rime's story in Ym is...quite honestly, boring in comparison, and distracting from the freshness of what's happened to Hirka. And with Urd all but gone from the picture, there's not even a villain to love to hate. But I'll be generous and give this one a 2.5 rounded up to 3, if only for Hirka's storyline...and for yet another terrifying cliffhanger guaranteeing that I'll be seeing this trilogy through.
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