I said in my review for "The Black Coast" (book 1 in this series) that it's "everything you could wish for from a fantasy novel", and "The Splinter King" is just as wonderful. It was really easy to fall back into the story and the world, and I realised that I had missed "having some of the characters around" so I was very happy while reading! Mike Brooks's writing continues to be fantastic (the bar has been set very high for future work!). My thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley. This review was written voluntarily and is entirely my own, unbiased, opinion.

This second book in this series I definitely enjoyed more than the first. We hear more from the secondary characters that were introduced in the first book from different areas and their stories all start to come together in an interesting way. I'm interested to see where this story goes in book 3.