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alli_thebookgiraffe's review against another edition
4.0
This book is very slow paced, it kept putting it has taken me about three months to read because of this. It is due to a lot of world building which I do like. I can also say I really love chapter 17. The characters talk about sex and I love this for a YA book. It is the right way to bring sex into a YA book. I also enjoy the feminism and inclusivity. The bits about Dead Eye I also didn’t like. I understand how it is important to the story, but I didn’t think they were interesting. When Dead Eye was taken over by death and Dove takes the spotlight of the perspective, I liked it more. There are people with actual common sense when given a leader who means only harm. I hate seeing blind faith and Dove has her own mind. This also made me believe Death to be naïve. I love how Cast always bring gods and goddesses and mythology into her books, in this book God of Death and Goddess of Life. I also love the openness to new religions and gods when it comes to her characters. I like how Danita was using Bast the Lynx as an emotional support animal. P C Cast shows the importance of companionship and animals in her books. Even though these characters are in the very distant future we see them doing things Millennials everywhere are doing as well. Breaking from tradition, asking why do something because it has been done so many times before? I agree, there is no reason for there to be only one moon woman. Seems like too much stress on one individual. This is again something always achieved in all her books. I did think the pacing of the romance was going well until the last 150 pages when all of a sudden Nik and Mari were saying they loved each other and then it did slow back down a bit after. Overall I thought it was a good book, I like the ending. It wasn't my favorite read but I am highly anticipating picking up the next one.
jmbowe92's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
hopeful
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
mickachoo's review against another edition
2.0
I did not enjoy this book as much as it's predecessor, if very much at all. It was slow, anti-climatic, incredibly cliche in most scenes of romance, and THE DOGGY KISSING got real old, real fast.
I also don't recall the first book having such cringe-y dialogue. It was awful and, in my opinion, took up way too much space in the book. It was tiresome.
Another thing incredibly annoying was how everyone was suddenly bonding with animals by the end of the book. In Moon Chosen, it was just a Tribe thing, then there came the lynx man, and then by the end of this book, everyone was bonding and kissing every dog in sight.
The author was basically like "you get a Companion, and you get a Companion, and you-"
Lastly, I think a point that stood out was the fact that this whole entire, 608 pages, book spanned all of a week (I think). THE ENTIRE FIRST HALF WAS ONE WHOLE DAY. If you can openly count the days passed in a book's storyline, I think the author is doing something wrong. Really.
I also don't recall the first book having such cringe-y dialogue. It was awful and, in my opinion, took up way too much space in the book. It was tiresome.
Another thing incredibly annoying was how everyone was suddenly bonding with animals by the end of the book. In Moon Chosen, it was just a Tribe thing, then there came the lynx man, and then by the end of this book, everyone was bonding and kissing every dog in sight.
The author was basically like "you get a Companion, and you get a Companion, and you-"
Lastly, I think a point that stood out was the fact that this whole entire, 608 pages, book spanned all of a week (I think). THE ENTIRE FIRST HALF WAS ONE WHOLE DAY. If you can openly count the days passed in a book's storyline, I think the author is doing something wrong. Really.
snakeboba's review against another edition
5.0
What I loved about this is how even though we're jumping right back into Mari and Nik's story through everyone's point of view we're able to circle back to key point from [i]Moon Chosen[/i] without losing new information to the plot in this second piece to the [i]Tales of the New World[/i]. It is a rare an author (to me at least) can pull of the task of not having to spend the first chapter or two revisiting what occurred in the previous novel.
There were certainly many developments in [i]Sun Warrior[/i]. Once more I was pulled into this world where ours has been no more for quite some time and people have gone back to worshiping Gods as well as being broken into different groups (Clans, Tribes, People, Chain, etc). Yet where worlds have been divided it appears Mari and Nik are prepared to bring it together even if it means to flee into another part of the world to create their Pack.
Danger awaits them beyond the Tribe. Another darker being has been awoken is ready to make the earth His.
There were certainly many developments in [i]Sun Warrior[/i]. Once more I was pulled into this world where ours has been no more for quite some time and people have gone back to worshiping Gods as well as being broken into different groups (Clans, Tribes, People, Chain, etc). Yet where worlds have been divided it appears Mari and Nik are prepared to bring it together even if it means to flee into another part of the world to create their Pack.
Danger awaits them beyond the Tribe. Another darker being has been awoken is ready to make the earth His.
ashlover18's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
4.5
lyndsiamanda's review against another edition
3.0
This one was hard to get through, the plot is great, the animals (they started including felines in this one), the story, everything about it was great....BUT There is so much of Thaddeus calling Mari a 'scratcher whore' that you can take, and seriously.....the god of death? Please? Dove was smart to run away! Her love decides that he is going to take is own life so he can become the vessel for the god of death and then try to get Dove to be the goddess of Life? I mean....really? I can not. I only gave this a three because I know that the next one is going to be the same rambling this one was and I don't have to get to that one for a little while SO....I'm going to read something hopefully better....and give Tales of a New World a break for now! :)
mpalmisano08's review against another edition
4.0
Loved this, great second edition to the first book. Can’t wait for the final one.