Week 1 Review: Wheel of the Infinite

From Goodreads:

A traitor and a swordsman join forces to save the world from being rewritten into devastation.

Every year the image of the Wheel of the Infinite must be painstakingly remade to ensure another year of peace and harmony for the Celestial Empire. Every hundred years the very fabric of the world must be rewoven. Linked by the mystic energies of the Infinite, the Wheel and world are one. But a black storm is spreading across the Wheel, reappearing each morning, bigger and darker than before, unraveling the beautiful and orderly patterns.

Maskelle, a murderer and traitor, has been summoned back to help put the world right with the assistance of the mysterious Rian, a swordsman of some renown. If they can't find the source of the problems that plague the Wheel, the world may find its latest rotation is its last.

My Review:
This was an incredible read! It's dense, and it's a slow read, but oh, what a story it is! I'm glad that these stories are being updated and revised, because her Murderbot Diaries series is really popular, and that's getting more eyes, including my own, on these books, which is great, because they're fantastic reads! 

Maskelle did some things that she's not proud of, which got her pretty much banished. That she held a position of some significant, and it can't be filled while she's still alive, well, it's complicated. And so is the whole thing with the Wheel of the INfinite and how it works, because it's pretty important to the whole world, that it's done right.

The world building was done really well, in pieces and pieces that were easy to digest, combined with some really excellent characters, because Maskelle and Rian were just awesome to read about. Not to mention the mystery about what's going wrong, and who's behind it.

That ending though? That was so fantastic, and I loved how it tied a lot of little pieces together. That one mention of the past, that came to be pretty important in what was going wrong-and how to fix it. I loved where we left these characters, and what that means for their future! 

Loved reading this book and I can't wait to read more by Martha Wells! 

Author: Martha Wells  
Read: January 2nd, 2025 
Source: NetGalley 
Reason Why: Love her writing and it sounded really great, and it's a SAC 2025 Book! 
Publisher: Tor Books 
Published: November 19th 2024

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars