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jenny_librarian's review
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
2.5
The only reason I didnāt DNF this is because I was worried Iād miss important information to the more general THR plot (and I was right).
This has to be my least favourite THR book so far. The other YA (and even the MG) novels felt more connected, while this felt very much like an afterthought. I didnāt like the writing, and it couldāve used some more edits.Ā
I also didnāt care much for Zeen and Krix. I guess you have to be a fan of the comics to really like them. Ram was fine, if underdeveloped. Reath was the one I connected with the most, but I assume thatās because I already knew him from past novels.
What bugged me the most (infuriated me, to be exact) was how the author kept trying to hammer in the āJedi can love tooā plot point. We know that. I donāt need you to shove 3 different clumsy romantic arcs to tell me that Jedi can be alloromantic. And not one of them actually understands what the whole āno attachmentā thing means. Kantamās backstory felt glued on with duck tape. Lula and Zeen had about 5 min together in this. The only somewhat realistic romance was Crash and Sviāno, but even that was watered down by everything else happening in there.
I am deeply disappointed in this. For a book that happens at the same time as The Fallen Star, I didnāt feel the same urgency here until the last 15%. And even thenā¦
This has to be my least favourite THR book so far. The other YA (and even the MG) novels felt more connected, while this felt very much like an afterthought. I didnāt like the writing, and it couldāve used some more edits.Ā
I also didnāt care much for Zeen and Krix. I guess you have to be a fan of the comics to really like them. Ram was fine, if underdeveloped. Reath was the one I connected with the most, but I assume thatās because I already knew him from past novels.
What bugged me the most (infuriated me, to be exact) was how the author kept trying to hammer in the āJedi can love tooā plot point. We know that. I donāt need you to shove 3 different clumsy romantic arcs to tell me that Jedi can be alloromantic. And not one of them actually understands what the whole āno attachmentā thing means. Kantamās backstory felt glued on with duck tape. Lula and Zeen had about 5 min together in this. The only somewhat realistic romance was Crash and Sviāno, but even that was watered down by everything else happening in there.
I am deeply disappointed in this. For a book that happens at the same time as The Fallen Star, I didnāt feel the same urgency here until the last 15%. And even thenā¦
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Gun violence, War, and Blood
Moderate: Grief and Xenophobia
Minor: Death and Death of parent
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