The Strength of the Few Review

I need financial compensation from The Strength of the Few. I haven’t been this disappointed in a book in so long. Honestly, it hurts my feelings a bit. Do you remember when you could mark your relationship status as “it’s complicated” on Facebook? Well, that’s how I feel about this book.

Synopsis

The Hierarchy still call me Vis Telimus. Still hail me as Catenicus. They still, as one, believe they know who I am.

But with all that has happened—with what I fear is coming—I am not sure it matters anymore.

I am no longer one. I won the Iudicium, and lost everything—and now, impossibly, the ancient device beyond the Labyrinth has replicated me across three separate worlds. A different version of myself in each of Obiteum, Luceum, and Res. Three different bodies, three different lives. I have to hide; fight; play politics. I have to train; trust; lie. Then I have to kill; heal; prove myself again, and again, and again.

I am loved, and hated, and entirely alone.

Above all, though, I need to find answers before it’s too late. To understand the nature of what has happened to me, and why.

I need to find a way to stop the coming Cataclysm, because if all I have learned is true, I may be the only one who can.

My Thoughts on The Strength of the Few

Honestly, I want to cry writing this. I LOVED The Will of the Many. I even told my husband that it could be a new favorite series. Like maybe even a Stormlight Archives level series. But, boy, book two is making me question that statement.

The Strength of the Few took everything I loved about The Will of the Many and changed pretty much everything. It didn’t really even feel like the same world. And honestly, part of the problem was that two povs were not from the same world. Splitting this into three povs was ambitious but it took away from the rich world building that was already established. The other two worlds felt flat in comparison. The characters in the other world also lacked the development that worked so well in the first book.

I do want to know how it all ties together that’s why I picked it back up after dnfing it. And honestly, I still don’t know what ties it together even after finishing it. To be honest, I was confused for the entirety of the book. Don’t ask me what happened because I don’t think I could actually tell you. I kept hoping for clarity, but it never really came.

But for some reason I still plan to read this stupid series. Something about it grabbed me and won’t let go. I hope book three makes drastic improvements though.

My Rating: 2/5