After finishing this book, I’m
officially mad at the author of this series, and I may or may not get beyond my
frustration enough to continue to the next book.
I’m mad because when I start a
series, I trust that the author can be a reliable guide who knows where he/she
is going and that I will return from the adventure I’ve stepped into. Right
now, I have no faith that the author will ever provide sufficient closure.
The Sword of the Lady is the seventh book in S.M. Stirling’s Emberverse
series, all of which I’ve read in addition to a companion set of three books (that stopped with no closure) that share the same starting point but that branch out in a different time
dimension than the series that The Sword of The Lady plays out in.
I’ve clearly enjoyed the books
or I wouldn’t have now read ten of them over the last five years. The beginning
premise of both series stem from one incident called "The Change," one day in 1998, when unexpectedly, immediately, and simultaneously, the entire
world loses power. All electrical and fossil-fuel powered engines cease
functioning and gunpowder stops working. Chaos
and death ensue, eventually followed by emerging new societies of survivors.
The Sword of the Lady takes place in 2022, twenty-four years after the change,
focusing on a specific group of first generation young adults who have existed
only in their post-apocalyptic areas of what used to be the United States.
It appears that at least another
seven books have already been written to follow this book, and another is due
to be released in the fall of 2018. I don’t know . . . I like the story . . . I like
the characters . . . But at the moment, I’ve completely lost patience because I have
no intention of being lost in one fictional series for the remainder of my
life. I think I’ll stop reading, hope the books eventually reach a satisfactory
conclusion and are turned into a TV series that I can binge watch some year on
Netflix to better use the real life I’ve been granted.
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