I think that largely overlaps with my complaints, although I might add:
a) the correct way to do a multiple volume story is to bring each book to a satisfying conclusion, perhaps by wrapping up some subplots, not to give us the impression that you ran out of typewriter ribbon and decided you might as well stop there.
b) the two main subplots for the first book are a child who can work literal miracles... and that someone has slightly meddled with the equivalent of the Sunday Times Rich List, which everyone in the world is obsessed with for no readily apparent reason. One of these things is not like the other.
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(Have read the second book. Will resentfully read the plot summaries of books 3 & 4, I suspect.)
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a) the correct way to do a multiple volume story is to bring each book to a satisfying conclusion, perhaps by wrapping up some subplots, not to give us the impression that you ran out of typewriter ribbon and decided you might as well stop there.
b) the two main subplots for the first book are a child who can work literal miracles... and that someone has slightly meddled with the equivalent of the Sunday Times Rich List, which everyone in the world is obsessed with for no readily apparent reason. One of these things is not like the other.