Shawn’s Reviews > The Urth of the New Sun > Status Update

Finally we get a break in the action as Severian beds another woman and finds out the vaguest truth possible about what is actually happening to him. I like this slowdown in the plotting and it really makes me only wonder as to where the story is going at this point.

Holy bath salts everything has gone of the fucking rails with this one. The plot moves along at breakneck speed with almost no rumination by Severian which I miss. The big mystery here is the ship itself and while it's neat, it feels flimsy to me in a way like everything else. I am used to Sev going from one seemingly random encounter to the next, but this is getting a little out of control.