![]() ![]() ![]() To have him just be part of the background now is a waste. ![]() Having not read The Rising, I'm sure much of the book was eaten up by Jim's quest to find his son at all costs. He's just along for the ride, adding nothing to the story - in fact, it must be a bit of a dissapointment for Danny to turn out to be nothing more than just a normal kid. ![]() The largest plot point from the previous book - the quest to find Danny - is resolved early on, and from that point on Danny becomes dead weight. All the build up, backstory, breakdown and plotting of the first book are in the past by the time the first few pages fly by (although some backstory, problems and unresolved issues do crop up in later chapters) leaving the reader with just "the payoff" - an outright battle between the teeming masses of the dead and the remaining few of the living. I've looked all over the front and back covers and inside pages, and there's nothing there to tell me this is a direct sequel to Brian Keene's The Rising.īut does that matter? In the case of City of the Dead, it turns out to be something of a plus. It's fast becoming a habit with me to pick up books that are either a sequel or part of a series, and not realize it until it's too late. ![]()
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