2.5 Stars

It's been a long time since I read The Smiler's Fair which follows several characters including a boy called Krish who is apparently the 'Moon God reborn'. The Hunter's Kind follows on after a terrible fire had ripped through Smiler's Fair, Krish is on the run with his warrior friend Dao Hyo and a mage Olufemi looking for somewhere safe to stay while his enemies rally to take him down.

I thought I would be really lost going into this as the story of The Smiler's Fair was really, really faint in my memory by surprisingly, most things floated back to me. I enjoyed the story at the start but I actually preferred Cwen, Alfreda and Sang Ki's storylines better than Krish's, who I ended up disliking. I felt like things kind of flipped in this book compared to the first book and I was suddenly left not knowing who was bad and who was good and who I should be rooting for (I feel like with fantasy, you normally know who the baddies are) and I didn't like that feeling.

I felt disappointed with the ending, it was rather flat and I also hated the terrible waste of human life just so there could be a bit of family bonding. Personally, I actually though Dao Hyo was going to slit Krish's throat and I was actually okay with that. I'm not sure if there's going to be a next book as anothr isn't showing up on Goodreads so if there's not the epilogue was a bit crappy and it definitely wasn't any kind of conclusion I wanted.