Twice Nothing is Definitely Still Nothing

Well Monday at 12:15 AM I finished reading Sir Apropos of Nothing, Book Two: The Woad to Wuin. It’s the second in the Sir Apropos series by Peter David. I reviewed the first book previously. This review will probably be shorter than the last one, since I don’t have to cover all the intro material. Let’s talk about Apropos’ rambling tale, shall we?

This tale picks up just a few weeks after the first book, using the same “Apropos narrating his life or writing his memoirs,” point of view. Apropos gets swept into an adventure that pokes a lot of fun at The Lord of the Rings. He glosses over it in 20 pages, because he finds it all terribly embarrassing. It’s great that the first 20 pages of a satire can poke fun at the greatest fantasy series of all time, and in remarkably funny fashion. Apropos looses his closest friend, if you can call her that, looses his home and business, gets chased, faces death, and awakens to find that he is missing quite a bit of time during which he has apparently become everything he has so long loathed in others. Oh and maybe he gets to decide the fate of the world, depending on if you believe in free will or destiny. Or maybe not.

This book may indeed be better than the first in the series. Peter David just keeps impressing me with his writing. It’s not often that a writer can reference Babylon 5 in the title of a chapter that draws heavily from The Lord of the Rings. I can’t wait for the next book.