Reviews & Overviews by Rod Cameron

Bloodmind - Liz Williams

Publisher:	Tor
Date:	2007
Size:	293 Pages
Format:	Trade Paperback
Price:	£10.99
ISBN:	978-1-4050-5549-9
Reviewed by:	Rod Cameron
Review Date:	March 2007

This is the sequel to Liz Williams’ Darkland which I reviewed earlier. The story follows on immediately from the end of Darkland with Vali Hallsdottir discovering the body of her friend and mentor. With her profession being an assassin, she is ironically arrested as a suspect. But she receives mysterious help to escape and goes on the run in a quest to locate the killer. Like Darkland, Bloodmind is set on the same three planets that we met in the previous book. Initially, each chapter concerns a different and very disparate character from each of these worlds. Vali still suffers from the issues that concerned her in the first book, but she does start to change and mature in this book.

Bloodmind is a much shorter story. In that it is linked to the first book, it could be argued that this is a continuance of that first story, and as such should not have been published as a separate volume. However I suppose that I would then have moaned about the book being too big! Please don’t read this book first – it will not be easy going. If you enjoyed Darkland, then you will enjoy this – more of the same.