Constance Verity Saves the World

by A. Lee Martinez

Book Overview

For Constance Verity, saving the world isn't the hard part. It's keeping her new, ordinary life from falling apart along the way that's going to be tricky. This is the next book in the witty Constance Verity trilogy, which Booklist named a Top 10 SF/Fantasy book of 2016. Constance successfully became an ordinary person. People warned her it would be boring--and they were right. That's exactly why Connie loves it. But there's an Adventurer-shaped hole in the cosmos now, and a lot of interested parties eager to fill it. Not all of those candidates are fit for the role, and if The Adventurer falls into the wrong hands, it can lead to chaos and destruction. Constance still has all the skills of her old life, but she's no longer chosen. Yet when the fate of the world is at stake, she sets off, reluctantly, to keep the forces of evil from stealing the destiny she abandoned.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1481443550
• ISBN13: 9781481443555
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: S&s/Saga Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Verity Wars Episode II: Attack of COBRA!

Best way to say it is that if you liked the first book (which I did), you'll like this one (again, I did). It definitely has an "Act II" vibe to it. The villainous group the book centers around Siege Perilous (while essentially just a spoof of Cobra from G.I. Joe) make for a fun and imaginative group of antagonists with a lot of personality and gets a lot more focus than the many unrelated villains in the first one. This has its pros and its cons, as while the first book has the vibe of all of Connie's adventures coalescing, here it feels like yet another adventure that just so happens to interfere with her social life, specifically her relationship with her "normal" boyfriend. This leads to the stakes of the books feeling lower than the first (though it's hard to top the destruction of the universe when you get down to it). All in all, a worthy addition to the saga, making for an enjoyable McDonalds playground-esq cooldown after the first book.