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lastcomment314's review against another edition
adventurous
fast-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? Yes
3.75
It was almost so good. I love me a good gay Arthurian fantasy, and this one had a cool twist with being set in space, and some nice found family vibes, but the overall delivery on this one held it back. Stylistically, it wasn't quite my cuppa tea. There were also certain scenes that seemed forced, and the focus on sex and bodily functions was a bit much for my tastes. To summarize discussion with group I read this with, we don't care about Merlin relieving himself in the crystal cave, we care about the quest to overthrow the unjust, tyrannical king company.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Genocide, Excrement, Colonisation, Violence, Cursing, Death, War, Classism, Blood, Grief, and Murder
Minor: Alcohol, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Torture, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Grief, Death of parent, Racism, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, and Pregnancy
maplewrites's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
hopeful
fast-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
3.75
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the ending. I did not like the ending
I liked everything else. i loved the characters. I loved the plot. I loved the story. I loved the conflict. I loved how emotions were a very important part of the story. I loved the pacing.
I did not like the ending.
Look, look. the ending was just. UGH. No. I get it, setting up the sequel. But no. That's just not how you destroy monopolies. The best thing to do at the meeting of the round table would be to look at the systems in place that the Mercer company was using and then break it up between the planets that they were taking resources from. Give it to the individual governments of those planets to do with as they see fit. To put them in charge of helping each other. Not just... trying to build everything new from the ground up. Invent the systems that prevent monopolies. One of those systems is how to break up monopolies if they ever should occur, break up Mercer based on those systems. I just.
the whole book, Ari complained about pageantry and how bullshit it was. And yet, she was playing their game. It is a bullshit chess game that the Mercer company is playing. And Ari was acting like anything they had to say had any meaning. Like, a lot of the power the Mercer company had after the figure head died was the power to lie. Ari's job in those moments should have been to go "no, that's not the game we're playing. Right now, what we're doing is using the resources that you have stolen and giving them to the people that need them. I have killed your guy in charge because that was the only way to gain footing, also he was genocidal." Because she does not need to play by their rules. I get it, she doesn't know how to run a government. But she does know how to use her resources. She has a lot of resources. She can use them!! She can use them to make sure that the planets can be reliant on each other and sustain each other.
the ending. I did not like the ending
I liked everything else. i loved the characters. I loved the plot. I loved the story. I loved the conflict. I loved how emotions were a very important part of the story. I loved the pacing.
I did not like the ending.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death of parent, Classism, Violence, War, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Police brutality, and Xenophobia
Moderate: Pregnancy
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