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| The Sunrise Lands |
The Sunrise Lands is the fourth book in Stirling’s disturbing series, set in an alternate reality were electricity and explosives no longer work. In this book, the descendants of the characters from the first three books travel across what used to be the United States. Having read this book, I have to agree with some of the reader comments that I saw on Amazon.com. For me, the most interesting parts of this book was seeing what happened outside of the Willamette Valley after the Change. And it looks like Stirling has really outdone himself creating the baddie in this book. The guy only exists on paper, but he really gives me the willies. The only problem I had with this book is that it is clearly the first book in a second trilogy, and so it ends feeling unfinished. It’s a 450 page book, but I still felt like there ought to be more to the plot–especially give than at least the first half or more of the book is just set up for the journey east. This book only really gets exciting in the last third.