Calista's Reviews > Ghostwater

3rd reading:

For me, this is still a highlight of the series. It's my 3rd read and I still love the pocketworld setting. I didn't know such a thing really existed and so it's all new to me. I love the concept. Will is amazing how well he guides this story and he's great at bringing the new and big ideas. Although, it does seem that when the plot needs Lindon to be weak, he can't win so that later, Lindon will blow all of them away. It sort of comes and goes at Will's whim. Mostly, he gives good reasons, but there are times, it simply because Lindon needs to win. Anyway, I love this story and I was going to slow down, but I just want to keep going.

The beginning is okay. It's the last dregs of the horrible 4th book. I just hate how the Skysworn treat Eithan's students. It's so boring to read. It might be tension, but not good tension and it grows so old. Then, the story becomes the gem it is.

2nd reading
I thought I read this last year, but it was only this past April. This year feels so long. After reading all 8 books, this is still one of my favorite of the series and I stand by the 5 star rating. Lindon gets to leap 2 stages in this book and it's great how it goes down. This is unique to the series and it holds up well to re-reads.


Previously,
Holy fried giant fish, this story was amazing. I mean, this book had me. This story brings it and it’s the best in the series so far. At first, I didn’t think this bubble world would be a good story but once I got going with it, I mean I could not put it down. I mostly read this story in 2 days. I do wish the books in this series had more information. It needs to be a bit longer and give us more information.

This was Lindon’s story. We also see perspectives from other cultures and Underlords and even Monarchs. We learn so much about this world and how it works and how much power people can really attain if they are lucky and work hard.

My last story, I complained that no one seems to have any sense of life, love or down time. Here, several characters try and tell Lindon that he needs to live a little. The mountain never ends and there is always another level to get to and he needs to rest and spend some time enjoying life. Lindon doesn’t listen.

We see Eithan again being awesome. It’s time he goes from Underlord to Overlord. He needs to up his game now. Mercy does not level up in this book. She is still Lowgold. Yerin finally levels up to Truegold from Highgold. Lindon has the book and he has to fight with Truegolds with Orthos and he finds potions and water to drink to help him. IN this story he goes from Lowgold to Truegold. He is set up to learn about Soulfire and learn to be an Underlord.

There is some big competition coming up for all the kingdoms to compete in and we see Eithan wanting to set up his disciples to fight in that competition.

Another cool thing Lindon did was he finds this construct that is self thinking and he helps it progress and become a thinking entity and then attaches it to his body. Lindon is getting to be amazing in power and he’s learning to fight.

My one complaint or critique about this story is we see so little of Yerin and Mercy bonding. They spent about a month in the woods together, camping together and having each other’s back and we see so little of that. Will should have take some more pages and shown us an emotional bond that started to form or at least respect. I am beginning to think he is writing these too fast with all the other series he is doing and he’s missing some moments. I know showing character growth will slow down an action story, but I love character development. I feel he pushes his story too hard and he doesn’t really give us enough character development when he can. Take a breath and let us see some vulnerability or some tension between them or some bonding, something. There were in the story so little that this is a little thing.

This book had everything and this was amazing. I love it. This is some entertaining stuff. It is non-stop action pulse pounding thriller going on.

When can I start Book 6!!!