To Green Angel Tower (Part 2) - Tad Williams

Published as "To Green Angel Tower - Storm" by Orbit Books: Great Britain, 2014 (1993).

This is it. The final installation.

The book that would make or break the series.

And... I liked it.

It is a little odd reading a book as its own thing that is technically the second part of another book (this was most apparent for me in how it failed to give the entire 'prophecy of Nisses' that Tad Williams had made sure to include in each of the previous volumes, and something that I liked to be able to revisit in my own plot predicting moments), yet as a finale Storm is satisfying. 

A lot of characters end up dying, including some that surprised me (although at least one of those doesn't 'stay dead'), but each of these manages to achieve the main purpose for their existence first. The main will-they-won't-they relationship of the previous installments finally becomes a 'will-they', without being too explicit in its descriptions. And most intriguing, the villain's plot manages to pull off a sudden twist that Williams has managed to keep fairly well hidden until the final moments. This final aspect means that there were moments when I was a little unsure as to whether the heroes would actually win, or if this would be a bleak and tragic end.

Only moments. But they were still effective.

So, on the whole, a good story, and a good way of wrapping up a series that - despite being too long in patches - was quite enjoyable.

Completed 29 May 2021.

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