Jennifer M. (Kaydence) reviewed The Lord of Opium (House of the Scorpion, Bk 2) on + 380 more book reviews
Summary:
This book continues with Matt, who has now become a drug lord because he is the clone of the previous drug lord. Since Matt has discovered who he is in the first book, this takes it to a new level of Matt attempting to become someone new. He wants to undo the drug regime and free the eejits, but there are so many complications in this process. First he has to survive as a drug lord, with a rival drug lord attempting to make that difficult. He is supposed to be ruthless, but that's just not his character. Second, the anti-clone fanatics cause some issues. Third, being in love with someone that isn't close by and finding other women a little more willing definitely puts Matt in an odd spot. How will Matt figure out his new life without getting killed?
My thoughts:
Well, it's been a very long time since I read The House of the Scorpion, so I needed a bit of a refresher before starting this book. I didn't expect a sequel, so I had put Matt's story in my file box of thousands of books read. When I realized that this was a sequel, I pulled out a copy of Scorpion and flipped through it again, just to refresh my mind on who Matt was and his basic characteristics. Scorpion is an awesome book that definitely sucks you in, so it was a good skim reread. Once I sat down to The Lord of Opium, I was excited to find out what adventure Matt would get into. I was interested in this book, but it does not include the same amount of suspense as the first. This one is a little more about intrigue instead of survival. Matt has to figure out how to live within this new life, so a lot of it is ethical training. How does he mesh the new role he is supposed to have with his inner morals? There is a good amount of danger, but it's not the same. It's like the next step up in Matt growing up. Matt is now solving more problems then running and trying to not get killed. Overall, this book dives further into character development and you really get inside the character's heads.
This book continues with Matt, who has now become a drug lord because he is the clone of the previous drug lord. Since Matt has discovered who he is in the first book, this takes it to a new level of Matt attempting to become someone new. He wants to undo the drug regime and free the eejits, but there are so many complications in this process. First he has to survive as a drug lord, with a rival drug lord attempting to make that difficult. He is supposed to be ruthless, but that's just not his character. Second, the anti-clone fanatics cause some issues. Third, being in love with someone that isn't close by and finding other women a little more willing definitely puts Matt in an odd spot. How will Matt figure out his new life without getting killed?
My thoughts:
Well, it's been a very long time since I read The House of the Scorpion, so I needed a bit of a refresher before starting this book. I didn't expect a sequel, so I had put Matt's story in my file box of thousands of books read. When I realized that this was a sequel, I pulled out a copy of Scorpion and flipped through it again, just to refresh my mind on who Matt was and his basic characteristics. Scorpion is an awesome book that definitely sucks you in, so it was a good skim reread. Once I sat down to The Lord of Opium, I was excited to find out what adventure Matt would get into. I was interested in this book, but it does not include the same amount of suspense as the first. This one is a little more about intrigue instead of survival. Matt has to figure out how to live within this new life, so a lot of it is ethical training. How does he mesh the new role he is supposed to have with his inner morals? There is a good amount of danger, but it's not the same. It's like the next step up in Matt growing up. Matt is now solving more problems then running and trying to not get killed. Overall, this book dives further into character development and you really get inside the character's heads.
Alice (momojojomonkey) - , reviewed The Lord of Opium (House of the Scorpion, Bk 2) on + 19 more book reviews
After reading the first book, "The House of Scorpion", my children and I were excited to find out Nancy Farmer came up with this one. It was again I rate: "A MUST" Farmer's wide knowledge and sense of humor brought this book alive and tickled readers' deep emotion. We loved it! Both my children had read all of her books and we had read interview of Farmer. She is one of our favorite for sure. The story in this book is very easy to understand for children and it goes deep which allows them to think about making better choices in their lives.
