William Morrow Master of the Revels: A Return to Neal Stephenson's D.O.D.O.

Good plot, good characters, came off the back of a book I enjoyed and it is written by a very good author but it is just stodgy and uninteresting which was disappointing since I'd been looking forward to it coming out. I wonder if the contract specified more pages than the story needed and a lot was just filler

Possibly a bit too much of Grainne's annoying written accent!

As wonderfully imagined as the first D.O.D.O!

Nicole Galland continues the story solo, with nice additions, like Tristan's sister, and much more of Shakespeare's old London. We enjoy the vivid description of this DTAP, of which Galland is a specialist.Less technology and more interactions between the different characters, including the famous playwright himself and the Master of the Revels, who rules the Court theaters !You'll see that Defeating Gráinne's schemes is not an easy task in old England.There's a conclusion at the end of this book, but the path is open for a third !I hope we won't wait too long :-)

Eine entspannende Lektüre, die den Charakteren aus D.O.D.O. mehr Raum gibt, dafür mit technischen und historischen Informationen weitaus sparsamer umgeht. Die Geschichte ist also nicht mehr so komplex wie im ersten Buch; dafür gibt's mehr emotionalen Gehalt und das ist auch schön zu lesen.