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

Not bad, but it just didn't have the same spirit as the previous books. All the things that Gene Wolfe hinted at and made mysterious were presented here flat out and, in doing so, he sucked some of the magic out.

Events are starting to clarify themselves now. It's a little annoying how Severian keeps mentioning characters from the previous books (there were a lot of them), as it's been awhile since I read them.