Book Review: The Name of All Things (A Chorus of Dragons, #2) by Jenn Lyons
ARC & Review Copy provided by my friend—Traveling Cloak—and the publisher—Tor UK—in exchange for an honest review.
The Name of All Things by Jenn Lyons
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Series: A Chorus of Dragons (Book #2 of 5)
Genre: Fantasy, High fantasy
Pages: 592 pages (UK hardback edition)
Published: 31th October 2019 by Tor (UK) and 29th October 2019 by Tor (US)
The Name of All Things is vast, complex, and engrossing; a wonderful improvement over its predecessor.
It’s quite surreal to think that Jenn Lyons released her debut, The Ruin of Kings, at the beginning of this year and a week from now its sequel, The Name of All Things, will be published to the world as well. Some of you may be familiar with The Ruin of Kings; it was Tor’s biggest and most advertised debut of the year. If you’ve read my review on The Ruin of Kings, you would know that I’ve had my share of mixed feelings with Lyons’s debut. It wasn’t that it was a bad book per se, but more like it could’ve been an even more incredible debut if it wasn’t due to the storytelling style that in my opinion felt too unnecessarily convoluted; whether you loved it or not though, I don’t think there’s any doubt that The Ruin of Kings was a super memorable debut with a unique narrative style. I can assure you that The Name of All Things is a great sequel that retains the series’ unique storytelling style but it was told in a much less convoluted manner which ends up elevating the book to triumph over its predecessor. …