The writing in the trilogy is a little less polished than it is in the Cradle series, and the story-telling isn’t quite as smooth as it could be. This was, as near as I can tell, one of the earlier works that Wight published, and it’s somewhat obvious. Anyhow, after devouring the Cradle series, I wanted to find out if Wight had anything else published, and thus I came upon the Traveler’s Gate Trilogy. If you haven’t already read the Cradle books, I highly encourage you to do so, and then to read my reviews of them, starting with Unsouled. We’ve spent the last seven weeks (seven weeks, really? That’s a lot of weeks) reviewing the Cradle series, also by Will Wight, whom I discovered when I happened to pick up Uncrowned, not even realizing that it wasn’t a stand-alone novel, but was instead the seventh book in a series. And how I wish that I could have given this three and a half stars, because that’s more accurately how I’d rate it. That’s mostly because I happened to read them all in a single book, but also because I think that’s how they’re best presented: none are really so long or so contained that they need or should stand on their own. In a way, you’re getting three reviews in one this week, because I’m going to be reviewing the whole Traveler’s Gate trilogy in this post, rather than doing a single post per book.

Warning: this post contains spoilers for the novels and short stories of The Traveler’s Gate Trilogy, by Will Wight, including House of Blades, The Crimson Vault, and City of Light

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