I went in blind for “They both die at the end” having been put off by the title for so long but I was SO blown away that when I came across a copy of the prequel, I immediately dove into it. Unfortunately it suffers from Second Book Syndrome where you can feel the author struggling to replicate the first book and falling short. It feels forced and is way too long, like they were trying so hard to make the reader connect to the story and completely feel the significance of everything. I have other complaints but don’t want to cross into spoiler territory. One of my favourite books in the world is the first Aristotle and Dante, and the sequel to that also suffered from Second Boom Syndrome but it still held itself together whereas this one kind of fell apart.
What do you guys think?
by Hazel1002