Gillian Anderson (2) (1968–)

Ok, the first book of the series wasn’t the most original one but unfortunately this one is even worse. Moderately interesting characters doing moderately interesting things and having visions all the time about a moderately interesting mystic ancient empire. The forced mysticism is simply too much and worst happened what can happen with a book: I simply wasn’t interested that happens on the next page. I’ll read the third book just to see how all of this ends but I’m not raising high hopes to it.… (meer)

This is a reasonably entertaining bit of fantasy. It's fast-paced and doles out just enough information to keep my interest, while making the characters smart and skeptical enough to deal with some of my own potential questions (although the skepticism flies out the window pretty quickly at the end). It definitely starts turning into a bit of convoluted history and some heavy woo toward the end, but sets up a sequel with some possible world-building. Overall, it was a great read for my daily commute, but predictably, not stellar literature. It's one of those filler books I like to read when I am also reading some really heavy history or political theory, specifically because it doesn't make me think much.… (meer)