Orphans of Chaos Quick Review
I just finished reading Orphans of Chaos by John C. Wright. I received this book free in digital form from Tor’s Watch the Skies.
Quick spoiler-free summary - five orphan teenagers at a special school discover that they’re not who they’ve been told they are. Their teachers are not who they appear to be. As the book progresses the teenagers begin to unravel their identities as well as their teachers’.
This book largely failed to impress me. This is not due to any particular failing of the story. The problem is mostly that it’s book one of a trilogy. By the end of the book, little is resolved. I had some idea of who’s who, but not really any idea of why it mattered. I would recommend that you read this when you have the whole trilogy in front of you - if things get wrapped up nicely it’s probably worth reading. It seems to me that there is little satisfaction to be gained from reading this one book at a time.