A review by wolvenbolt
Tales of the Sun Eater, Vol. 2 by Christopher Ruocchio

3.0

So as with volume 1, volume 2 is just a collection of short stories in the Sun Eater universe.

This was much shorter than volume 1, which I liked. I don't wanna read an in-between novella that's 250+ pages when I am dying to start the next main book, so the shorter length was much appreciated.

This suffers from the same issues I had with the first volume: There are stories here that are about new characters I have zero connection to and don't care about. There are a couple stories here that are, but even then I only really loved and was gripped by one of them.

The stories I liked were Dragonslayers, Kill the King and The Four Devils. 
  • Dragonslayers was action-packed and I quickly grew to care about the main characters.
  • Kill the King was fun and had me speculating all that could be happening in the next book, and how it not just Humans and Cielcin, there are others who are just waiting for the opportunity to fill the power vacuum while the bigger powers' attentions are occupied.
  • The Four Devils was my favourite, I've always wondered if Hadrian's family were aware of his life and I've always wondered if Crispin told his Mother he knew she helped his brother escape. Only issue I had was I wished it was longer and showed us more of the Marlow sister, I'm interested in how she is as a character. 

I liked this much more than volume 1, but there's still stories here that were just unenjoyable and sometimes boring, but luckily short