I liked the first book better. I could have left my review at that. I liked the first book in the trilogy, The Bear and the Nightingale better, much better.
The second installment was very heavy, very slow and not very magical at all. The Girl in the Tower was more like a story of woman’s struggle for her place in the male dominated society. Well, there is nothing wrong with such a story… However, it did not feel right at all. It felt like an outsider was trying to translate a story into a language difficult to understand even by that very same outsider. The whole story felt wrong, made up and convoluted.
Yes, the story was beautiful, full of well-researched details. But it was as different from the first installment as bad is different from good.
Unfortunately, I do not think I will read the third installment in the series.
Svetlana Tishchenko 