A review by jvan
Memory's Blade by Spencer Ellsworth
4.0
While I still thought this was great, I don't know how I feel about it as an ending. I'm left thinking the solution to the big problem was maybe a little simple; it felt underwhelming to me, and the ancient chronology of the whole thing makes me wonder how it wasn't solved a very, very long time ago. The death of a minorly major character was unsatisfying for me, too, and added in a strand that didn't work for me much.
That aside, it's a satisfying, exciting book that moves along quickly and does wrap up the big problem while not at all thinking (thankfully) that the smaller-but-only-marginally problems will just go away because reasons. There's a lot of complexity and history that remains to be examined and written about, and I hope Ellsworth gets on that at some point. As an overall series, Starfire is a great read and well worth your time.
That aside, it's a satisfying, exciting book that moves along quickly and does wrap up the big problem while not at all thinking (thankfully) that the smaller-but-only-marginally problems will just go away because reasons. There's a lot of complexity and history that remains to be examined and written about, and I hope Ellsworth gets on that at some point. As an overall series, Starfire is a great read and well worth your time.