The Blood Debt: Cataclysm Book 2 - Epic Fantasy Adventure

Fair warning, this book is not a sequel to The Crooked Letter no matter what the subtitle says.What it really is is Book 1 of a continuation series of an Australia only series by Williams: Books of The Change, which was set on post cataclysim Earth.The Crooked Letter is a stand alone prequel that covers how the world of the Books of the Change series came to be.If you liked The Crooked Letter, as I did, this book will be frustrating because it assumes you have read the Books of the Change series. Blood Debt is filled with people and creatures and references to events that took place in the Books of the Change series, but nothing in The Crooked Letter or Blood Debt tells you that these prior books exist or are related. This is shockingly poor planning on the part of the US publisher, Prometheus.I cannot really recommend this book unless you can track down the three Books of the Change and familiarize yourself with the world and characters. Blood Debt contains enough background to (barely) stand alone, but if you are expecting a true sequel to The Crooked Letter you are likely to be very disappointed.It is possible that Book 3 (which I will read, in for a penny in for a pound) ties them all together, but today, after finishing Blood Debt, I am frustrated and annoyed.