Last First Snow

by Max Gladstone

382 pages

English language

Published Aug. 5, 2015

ISBN:: 978-0-7653-7940-5
OCLC Number:: 907811360

(20 reviews)

"Forty years after the God Wars, Dresediel Lex bears the scars of liberation--especially in the Skittersill, a poor district still bound by the fallen gods' decaying edicts. As long as the gods' wards last, they strangle development; when they fail, demons will be loosed upon the city. The King in Red hires Elayne Kevarian of the Craft firm Kelethres, Albrecht, and Ao to fix the wards, but the Skittersill's people have their own ideas"--

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Otts reviewed Last First Snow by Max Gladstone (The Craft Sequence, #4)

Read. This. Book.

5 stars

Incredible. Gladstone has this ability to write palpably and ephemerally so you catch the meaning even as it slips away. But leaving you with enough so you’re not frustrated or confused. He takes something as grounded as community organizing for housing, the pressures of development and business interests, and wraps it in Craft (magic), wars with gods, and so much more. I’m re-reading this whole series.

cargide reviewed Last First Snow by Max Gladstone (The Craft Sequence, #4)

Review of 'Last first snow' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Con esta saga tengo un problema, pese a que me gusta mucho el universo que crea, con magos luchando contra dioses con poderes basados en contratos usando trozos de las almas de los fieles como moneda de cambio, a la hora de exponerlo es muy denso y se puede hacer difícil de seguir.

Ése ha sido el caso con este libro, pese a que lo que hay en juego, asegurar un barrio para evitar fracturas en la realidad, está presentado de una forma tan rutinaria que no he podido entrar en la historia. El hecho de que los personajes aparecieran en un libro anterior del que prácticamente no recordaba nada tampoco me ha ayudado a hacer la lectura más llevadera.

Pese a todo esto, sigue siendo un universo interesante, y cada vez que vuelvo a él, presenta factores nuevos que yo al menos no esperaba.

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Alex Keane reviewed Last First Snow by Max Gladstone (The Craft Sequence, #4)

Review of 'Last first snow' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

I really liked this book. As someone who has read the other Craft Sequence books, this was a great look at the past of the setting of Two Serpents Rise. But, the book is written well enough that knowledge from that book isn't necessary to enjoy this one.

The pacing of this story about rebuilding after conquest was mostly great. There was only one section of action toward the very end that I needed to read through a couple times to make sure I understood all of what was happening. On the whole though, I recommend this book if you feel like magical lawyers trying to rebuild a city after war might be an interesting concept. That sentence might sound lame, but the book really is good.