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Rebel Skies

Ann Sei Lin

3.72 AVERAGE

enbeeprince's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous emotional mysterious sad 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: N/A

onuu's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

phiffle's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous emotional funny fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

soletka's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

Lovely YA (for younger teenagers) about the world inspired by the Japanese culture, where the mysterious art of creating shikigami – wild paper spirits is sought after by a Princess. But this Princess might not be a good person and young Kurara should be careful, especially when she realizes certain information about herself...

This is obviously a first installment in the series and I am quite intrigued, as the world - while nothing especially new for this lover of all things Asian - is charming and full of well-presented food for thought about what a soul is and what a freedom is.
And I loved the character of Akane! Hopefully we will be reunited in the next installment, my dear fox!

garciaga's review against another edition

2.25

adventurous lighthearted slow-paced

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

chronically_theo's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous lighthearted tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: N/A

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

I loved the idea of this book, origami, interesting magic ect. All things I normally love in books but it was missing something.
The plot seemed rushed without enough time to actually grow attached to the characters or flesh them out.

the betrayal at the end had no good reason why other than shirakami are not real people and don't deserve respect. Which is weird considering the whole book proved otherwise. There was no resolution proving that ideology wrong either.
There was no resolution at all. It felt like they cut out the last third of the book. I could see it working if it had a page saying next book coming out soon but otherwise it was like driving along a road only for it randomly stop in the middle of nowhere.

Edit: Saw there is going to be a sequel but it was still missing something though it could be because I'm used to the older side of ya. I suggest you read it if it interests you, it's just personally not my thing.