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4.27 AVERAGE
4.27 AVERAGE
A glimpse into the Fire Nation before the war? Chefs kiss. Unashamed warrior girlfriends? Sign me up.
it’s so fun learning about kyoshi, more as a person than as a powerful avatar. she’s surprisingly relatable and i really enjoyed it
adventurous
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:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
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
adventurous
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
KYOSHIIIIIIIII
adventurous
dark
emotional
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
Real good end to this duology! Felt that the last few portions were a bit rushed, but overall very satisfying. I’d recommend that if you’re not into politics, or if you’re expecting most of the same characters from the first book to reappear in this one, you’ll be either slightly disappointed, or bored. The few things I enjoyed most of all involved uses for bending that I never considered in the Avatar universe. Ended somewhat tragically, which is expected for Kyoshi’s avatar era. Highly recommend!
adventurous
dark
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Really disappointed that the sequel was such a letdown compared to the first book. It's like this book took the fact that this series is allowed to be darker than the original show and ran with it way too far. While the first book was balanced in dark and light parts, this one is almost dark all the way through. The great thing about Avatar (the original show) was that it was uplifting despite all the characters being caught in a worldwide war. This book was just depressing. While the first book in the series showed good sides to even "bad" people like criminals, this sequel essentially showed bad sides to even the people you expected to be good. While it's important to acknowledge that everyone makes mistakes and can do terrible things, the real point of that moral is supposed to be that people can grow past those mistakes and become better, just like Zuko and Iroh in the original show. Meanwhile this book was just like here's all the ways these people are bad / did bad, and you just have to live with it. (Examples: Zoryu wanting the best for the Fire Nation and you think he's a good person, then he totally deceives everyone to do it and has to be forced not to massacre his enemies; Kuruk turned out to be a spirit killer and even if he was doing it for a good reason, he still had to die young from it while his friends knew nothing which was depressing; Yangchen turned out to be the one who unintentionally made all those problems for Kuruk and she gives Kyoshi completely ineffective advice in the end after confessing that, essentially the just live-with-it vibe I mentioned before) Kyoshi didn't make any meaningful new bonds in this book like she did with her original found family in the first book; Jinpa is nice but essentially Kyoshi's servant and enabler and the White Lotus connection that kept being teased was never followed through on, which was greatly disappointing . Also none of the original found family showed up till the very end in a non-meaningful way, except that of course Rangi was with Kyoshi throughout most of the book... but it didn't make sense why Rangi supported Kyoshi in the end because I don't recall them reconciling for Kyoshi literally bending her to be stuck in the ground so that she couldn't stop Kyoshi from doing something truly stupid. Speaking of which, Kyoshi made so many stupid mistakes in this book that I don't blame her, I blame bad writing. It just got worse and worse and for the third time I'll say the book was depressing. It was also lame that Yun irrevocably went off the rails when he used to be so close to Kyoshi and Rangi. I truly think his character got unfairly one-dimensionalized into evil cardboard in order to be the main villain of this book. Sure, there's a lot of explanation for why he does what he does, but why is it coming from the turned-out-to-be-a-jerk Fire Lord? Why does he get to be the one who figures Yun out instead of his close friends Kyoshi and Rangi? It just felt unrealistic for Yun to go from 0 to 100 against them . The reason the rating isn't even lower than it is was that it still had some good moments, like between Rangi and Kyoshi, and the friendship between Hei-ran and Atuat was fun(ny) and of course there were some cool fights in the book. But overall, this was a disappointing end to the duology, and I wish there was a third book to fix things.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Again, sorry if I missed any content warnings, there's a lot, and I am too tired of this book to sort out their levels.
adventurous
tense
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:
Yes
I really enjoyed getting a deeper look into Kyoshi's struggles establishing herself as the Avatar. I feel like she's presented in ATLA as so assured and confident in herself and what she had to do in her life, but it was cool to see her go through the process of reaching that confidence