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A review by kayblecar
Midnight Horizon by Daniel José Older
0.0
This is part of the YA High Republic series but it reads younger than YA to me. The internal thoughts and reasoning of the teen characters feels too young as well, like 8 year old logic. Characters that have been in other HR books and comics are consistently characterized very differently in this book, even characters that Older created and wrote in the comics!
The dialogue and character reactions feel inappropriately quippy and dramatic, which contributes to the "young" feeling. I think this may come from Older's experience writing comics, though again, you'd think he'd write his comic characters the same.
There's a running bit where a character is learning to make jokes? And in the narration Older makes jokes that don't make sense but are echoes of other, better jokes. This makes me think Older doesn't know how to make a joke.
There are flashbacks throughout the book that don't really connect to anything that's happening in the story. They kinda lead up to something at the end but not really. It just made me think of how much better and meaningful the flashbacks in Into the Dark were.
Also, the thing that the bad guys are doing doesn't make sense in the broader High Republic continuity, becauseMarchion Ro explicitly did not want any Nihil at Starlight Beacon beside the team he sent there. None of the other Nihil knew about it so how could they be planning for months to support it!? This is actually pretty consistent with the way the Nihil objectives and structure are completely different in anything that Older writes in the comics.
The dialogue and character reactions feel inappropriately quippy and dramatic, which contributes to the "young" feeling. I think this may come from Older's experience writing comics, though again, you'd think he'd write his comic characters the same.
There's a running bit where a character is learning to make jokes? And in the narration Older makes jokes that don't make sense but are echoes of other, better jokes. This makes me think Older doesn't know how to make a joke.
There are flashbacks throughout the book that don't really connect to anything that's happening in the story. They kinda lead up to something at the end but not really. It just made me think of how much better and meaningful the flashbacks in Into the Dark were.
Also, the thing that the bad guys are doing doesn't make sense in the broader High Republic continuity, because