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3.83 AVERAGE
3.83 AVERAGE
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
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
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
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
emotional
inspiring
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:
Complicated
Am I glad I read this series? Yes. Will I read it again? No.
While I liked the story of this book better, there were still some major issues for me.
The first one is actually the publishers fault and fairly major. About 50 pages in I noticed that periods and ellipses weren’t round, but diamond shaped. Not gonna lie, once I noticed it drove me up the wall.
Rue at the beginning very heavily blames herself for failing and it just felt unrealistic to me. However, how she dealt with the trauma (for the half the book she did) was a nice detail.
The romance aspects were also severely lacking in my opinion. Jhamal and Rue have this weird relationship that cropped up out of nowhere in the first book. We kind of see Rue wanting to just him every now and again, but for the most part she dropped him like a hot potato. Personally I like Julius, but the romance with him was implied more than seen. We didn’t get to see their relationship develop, it was just there.
Also, why the hell would Rue bring Julius into the middle of a battle?! Like what? Homeboy has no magic. And why didn’t the Ghizoni put up a fight about him coming along like they did with Bri? Also, Rue wtf you doing texting while you’re hiking through a war zone on an important mission?
There is a scene where Rue goes back to East Row for cornbread. I understand she needed a slice of home. But that scene just didn’t feel like it belonged to me.
The fact there were betrayals were good, it was something to keep the reader guessing. However there was so much, they did the thing, no they didn’t, they did the thing, that it all felt jumbled. I’m also still not convinced the betrayers’ motivations were all that good.
I did like what happens to Jhamal at the end. I think it fit his character well and it was a brave choice by the author.
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Content Warnings
Minor: Torture
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
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
medium-paced
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I love it wasn't a continuation in certain ways from Wings of Ebony. But also could have gone without the love and world indecision/complication in this sequel.I wish Rue stuck with the issue at hand of who to trust and saving the magic without all the indecisiveness.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Cultural appropriation
Moderate: Death of parent
Minor: Death, Blood, Murder, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail
adventurous
dark
emotional
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
emotional
tense
medium-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
<#TeamJhamal was wrong :(>