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Book Review of The Consuming Fire (Interdependency)

The Consuming Fire (Interdependency)
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Excellent second book in the Interdependency. You'll need to have read the first. Lots of great characters, although there aren't too many shades of grey between them - it's mostly evil or mostly good. Lots of great snarky conversation and political plots and intrigues, double-crosses and triple-crosses, and unexpected twists. Scalzi interjects asides in a lot of places, detailing the consequences of minor acts and the fates of those you know are doomed anyway. I've seen some griping that Scalzi is making it too obvious that this series is a comment on climate change, well of course he is, but I'm fine with that. Good space opera and if you want to read anything else into it, that's up to you.