Dark Star Burning, Ash Falls White by Amélie Wen Zhao

3.9 AVERAGE

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morielihg's review

4.0
adventurous hopeful inspiring reflective tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

kihhhm's review against another edition

3.5
adventurous dark emotional fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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efi004's review against another edition

5.0
adventurous challenging emotional inspiring sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

charly05's review against another edition

4.25
adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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kaitlyn_mbooks's review against another edition

2.5
emotional sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
Zen carried this book so hard for me.

pageroulette's review against another edition

3.75
adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
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ellennicole's review

4.0
4.5- I liked the first one a little bit better, but both very good. Highly recommend.

ninjakittycake's review against another edition

4.0
I wanted to DNF book 1 so bad but am soo so so happy I didn’t because this one/book 2 was really good! Unfortunately you have to read book 1 to understand the story/plot and to avoid spoilers.
Maybe a re-read of book 1 will be better the second time.
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liznbooks's review

2.0
This was disappointing. The characters lacked a lot of depth for me. The pacing was off for me. I couldn't tell if a lot of time passed by or not. I personally do not enjoy main characters with rose tinted glasses.


Please skip, if you don't want spoilers.

Am I the only one disappointed that they both didn't die at the end? I just feel like it was such a cop out that they can relinquish the gods power if the other parties agree to it. If the author was just going to do that, then why didn't Lan and Zen tricked the other two villains to take their gods and then vanquish those two? Wouldn't that mean both of them survived?

electricteal's review against another edition

3.5
adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes