Waywarden (Briardark # 2), by S. A. Harian

The sequel to Briardark goes a long way toward reassuring me that Harian has a plan and it will all, or mostly all, make sense in the end. It's got everything I enjoyed about the first book but the epistolatory aspect: weird biology, weird time, lost in the wilderness, spooky cults, strange games, survival horror, and people trying to help each other across extreme gaps of space and time. But it's generally better-written and definitely better-characterized, and answers an unexpected number of questions while still leaving lots of mystery to explore.

It ends not exactly on a cliffhanger, but definitely on a big "to be continued." But I now feel confident that it will be continued and I will enjoy the continuation.

BIG SPOILERS.

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