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Steelstriker by Marie Lu

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~ Fantastic read! ~

Wowww. What an amazing end to an amazing duology!
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Marie Lu is one of my all time favorite authors and I auto-buy anything she writes! Steelstriker just really reinforced why! It was a great end to the series and have so much depth and meaning to the characters and world!
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The plot was definitely more slow paced for this duology and especially Steelstriker, but I actually really loved it that way! Most of Marie’s other books are really fast paced so I really appreciated the chance to slow down and read some excellent descriptions and character development.
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The characters were wonderful as always and I was very satisfied with how everyone’s character arcs ended.
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Now let’s talk about the endingggg!!! I don’t want to give spoilers, so all I’ll say is this ending was sooo good! It gave me such warm feelings and was a needed one for the overall tone of the duology!
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Wonderful job as always, Marie, and I can’t wait to buy and read whatever the next one is!
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CWs - fantasy violence, infrequent language
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haley_j_casey's review

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dark hopeful reflective slow-paced

3.0

I thought this book was beautiful at its core, I just found myself wanting more from it. More buildup, more action, more character development, more nuance. It's so difficult to fit a meaningful rebellion over tyranny into a duology, and I don't think it was totally managed here.

littlewhiterabbitreads's review

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challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

aonesty's review against another edition

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3.0

I think this book was just okay :( I normally love Marie Lu and everything she writes but this book wasn’t really giving what it should have been giving. It gets one star automatically because it’s Marie Lu and another star because think the concept was really interesting but the book was too boring and hard to get through.

gohan's review

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adventurous dark hopeful sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

apollos_meatballs's review

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4.0

I think this might be my favorite series Marie Lu has ever written it was sooooooooo good

janiceinwonderland's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

while i didn’t agree with it at first, i came to enjoy the split narrative between talin and red. i think red needed a little more personality, but it was novel to get things from his perspective.

plus, the pacing toward their storylines converging was done well enough for me

the pacing toward the ending and the ending itself was also satisfying.

it’s nice to actually get to keep your core characters alive in the end and i loved that talin told her colonizers that it wasn’t her job to undo their harmful actions. queen behavior right there

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