More of the Company

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I've just finished another two volumes in Kage Baker's Company series, The Life of the World to Come and The Children of the Company.

Complexities and possibilities are building, the plots are thickening, new revelation are flying fast and I'm still no closer to even guessing how it all will end.

The Life of the World to Come brings us back to Mendoza, waiting in exile for the unimaginable - which naturally happens, against all odds and expectations. but most of the novel is about three men living in three very different time periods - two of whom, both Mendoza's lovers, we have already met - and the mysterious links between them, as illuminated in the life of the third of them.

The Children of the Company is told by a new voice, Labienus, who we have so far seen only in glimpses and off-hand references in the stories of others. Now we see the actions of other, all throughout time, through his eyes and those of his associates, subordinates and spies. So many little things thant seemd simple are made significant, so many loose threads are knotted up, and yet the coming mysteries loom greater than ever.

More, I want more.