The Killing of Worlds: A Review

This is the second book in the Succession series, and it lives up to the promise of the first, The Risen Empire. I recall seeing someplace that Scott Westerfeld only made this a series at the behest of the US publisher, which probably explains how thoroughly tied together the two novels are.

In The Killing of Worlds, we start immediately where The Risen Empire ended. Captain Laurent Zai and