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Zodiac Academy 9: Restless Stars by Susanne Valenti, Caroline Peckham

5 reviews

ashleynp24's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense slow-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

3.5

By far the best part of this book is Seth and Caleb. I felt they really carried with their relationship. The ending of the book with the war and then the afterwards was fun. I liked seeing their lives after. I did feel like it was kind of anticlimactic though and I felt Lionel and Lavinia should have had worse deaths. I do feel things got wrapped up nicely, I’d have liked to read more about their kids. Also the last chapter said there’s more evil coming so I wonder if there will be more writing in a spinoff of their kids for that? Also I know why they didn’t kill off any main characters but I feel the battle would’ve been more impactful if one of the main characters was killed, not just Justin and Milton.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, War, Cursing, Grief, Hate crime, Sexual content, Blood, Murder, Pregnancy, Violence, Gore, Torture, Death of parent, Genocide, Classism, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Physical abuse

selestre's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Sexual content, Gore, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Cursing, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, War, Grief, and Blood

Minor: Alcohol, Car accident, Slavery, Bullying, Pregnancy, Stalking, and Kidnapping

yarisbooksandbevs's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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? It's complicated

4.0

What an ending! I absolutely loved this series. It made me cry, laugh, fan myself, and cheer them on. This book was a great way to finish it off and I think the story closed up really nicely. It did feel a little slow at times but still great.

A few thoughts. Clyde felt a little too easy but I’m glad Lionel ended up being the big bad in the end. What was Max’s mom trying to say about Linda? Where is Vard? Lol

I love these characters and this was great!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Genocide, Pregnancy, Grief, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Confinement

Minor: Alcohol

tguccione's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful tense slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Genocide, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Domestic abuse, Confinement, Death of parent, Slavery, Death, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, War, Classism, Murder, Violence, and Body horror

mels_reading_log's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

This book wraps up the Zodiac Academy Series. I love the characters in this series and the amount of depth and growth you see in them over the series. This book, being the last one, goes through the war with the False King, there is death and destruction, as you would expect. But there is also love, so much love.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Genocide, War, Death of parent, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Murder, Gun violence, Grief, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Emotional abuse, Classism, and Torture

Minor: Pregnancy