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While there is some level of futility in reviewing a sequel that was good, or at least as good as the previous book(s) in a series (by contrast warning people when a series suddenly goes downhill is both easy and fun), I'll give it a try:

The Orphans of Chaos series is essentially "This will get out of hand. It will get out of hand and we'll be lucky to live through it" fed to a necronomicon printed over an old annotated Greek mythology textbook and read after taking the brown acid. Things just keep escalating, and while it's hard to match the transition from boarding-school hijinks to eldritch abominations attempting to eat your face that occurs in the first book, Wright makes the attempt to keep it up and largely succeeds.

This means that the genre shift from Lovecraftian mystery to outright action leans heavily toward the latter on this one, so if you're expecting much more world-building you may be disappointed. The building is done and now the characters are busy ripping it apart. The trippy anachronisms and out-of-place scenes that make the other books so much fun continue, adding a classic car chase constructed from elements of classical mythology and good old Lovecraft-speak instead of actual cars to the list of things you'd never thought you'd be finding yourself imagining, and the trend of the children doing amazing things only to be immediately outclassed by older and more competent beings somehow fails to ever get old. The characters are likable when they're supposed to be, alien when they should be, and annoying when the writer wants them to be actual teenagers, making them all well-rounded if inhuman characters with clear and sympathetic if not entirely lovable motivations.

Definitely worth the read, five stars with no reservations.


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Fugitives of Chaos The Chronicles of Chaos John C Wright 9780765314963 Books Reviews

Book two of the Chronicles of Chaos, Fugitives of Chaos, begins moments after the first book ends and continues the story of five boarding school students trying to discover who they are and which universe they inhabit. I've already reviewed book one, Orphans of Chaos, and this book continues the same themes and is every bit as enjoyable. The main characters make further progress in their quest for escape, going from orphans to fugitives from their Olympus overlords in the process. Along the way they continue to discover and explore their inner latent power as well as their budding sexuality. The second book is as meaty with mythology and science as the first installment, going even further to flesh out how the two are related and intertwined. I'm greatly looking forward to the third and final book of the series, Titans of Chaos.
The story picks up and flows seamlessly from the first book. I have to admit that I know little about mythology, but I still find the story enjoyable. I think a greater background knowledge of mythology would give me a greater appreciation of the work, but as is its still very entertaining.
When I finished the first book, Orphans of Chaos, yesterday, I could hardly wait to start reading this second book in the series. I just completed this highly readable adventure! We find the "orphans" back at school, still determined to escape. Obviously, from the title, they do so. But what happens, and how it happens makes such a good story that I am just blown away!

We continue to learn more about the characters, and they finally seem to notice what was clear to the reader in the first book! Our sympathies lie with the orphans, but if their side "wins" all of humanity will be destroyed! What to do!! So this problem is explored more. And we also learn more about what powers the kids have, and poor Grendel Glum continues his R-rated quest for Amelia.

I hope everyone who enjoys a good fantasy reads these books and finds them as entertaining as I do!
I was a little leery of this series after reading the reviews... and it seemed like the 2nd book was the worst. NO. The series is awesome, if you love the florid yet readable prose, grandiose imagination, deep characters, and captivating yet detailed plots of John C. Wright. If you're expecting a Harry Potter knockoff that can be appreciated by everyone, age 8 to 80, this isn't it. Maybe 14 to 80. Maybe 18 and up. It's a work of art that draws on varied philosophical, scientific, mythological and fantastical realms, with depths that require familiarity with the background material to fully appreciate.
I discovered these books as an adult, and I've already read them twice!

These books are some of the most creative that I've ever read!!

I don't know how true the writing is with regard to mathematics or its dark sister physics, but as someone who has a keen, layman's interest in physics, I found the cosmology of these books to be compelling and fascinating. I remember my math teacher showing us the various ways to slice a cone (he had an actual cone thing) and being impressed but also being completely incapable of grasping the mathematical mechanics of it. One of the characters in these books seems to exist in the same mathematical dimensions, and at times, it felt like I did sort of get it.

Rather than being intimidated by an idea I couldn't get to gel, I found the experience very compelling. It's like catching a quick glimpse of God -- does that ideal ever actually gel?

Please don't take away that I had some kind religious experience here. I just thought these books presented ideas that were very fresh (for fantasy literature, at least) and very intelligent.

The only bummer is that I found myself rooting for the Titans. I sort of longed for them to come back and clean up some Olympian ....
While there is some level of futility in reviewing a sequel that was good, or at least as good as the previous book(s) in a series (by contrast warning people when a series suddenly goes downhill is both easy and fun), I'll give it a try

The Orphans of Chaos series is essentially "This will get out of hand. It will get out of hand and we'll be lucky to live through it" fed to a necronomicon printed over an old annotated Greek mythology textbook and read after taking the brown acid. Things just keep escalating, and while it's hard to match the transition from boarding-school hijinks to eldritch abominations attempting to eat your face that occurs in the first book, Wright makes the attempt to keep it up and largely succeeds.

This means that the genre shift from Lovecraftian mystery to outright action leans heavily toward the latter on this one, so if you're expecting much more world-building you may be disappointed. The building is done and now the characters are busy ripping it apart. The trippy anachronisms and out-of-place scenes that make the other books so much fun continue, adding a classic car chase constructed from elements of classical mythology and good old Lovecraft-speak instead of actual cars to the list of things you'd never thought you'd be finding yourself imagining, and the trend of the children doing amazing things only to be immediately outclassed by older and more competent beings somehow fails to ever get old. The characters are likable when they're supposed to be, alien when they should be, and annoying when the writer wants them to be actual teenagers, making them all well-rounded if inhuman characters with clear and sympathetic if not entirely lovable motivations.

Definitely worth the read, five stars with no reservations.