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Read his Final Architecture series recently and absolutely loved it. The characters were great, the world building was interesting and the portrayal of eldritch horrors was so well done.
Starts with the Shards of Earth, highly recommend.
I, too, read that series recently and loved it. However, I think the third book wasn't as great as the first two, but still good. How does children of time compare with this series? Final Architecture is the only work by the author that I have read.
As a first book, I think Children of Time is much better than Shards of Earth. I enjoyed both series but would say the third book in each was the weakest. The Final Architecture series had a slightly stronger third entry.
Will check out Children of Time then.
Also a fantastic series! The first book had an awful lot of new words and concepts to get on board with, but once it got going I was hooked. The Essiel were a super fascinating species, I wish we had learnt more about them but what we do know only makes the mystery grander. Ahab was also amazing. Every scene with him in had me chuckling with his complete one sighted obsession.
The dogs of war series is also good. Still sticks with me. Bees is another fascinating sentience as well.