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Metal Slinger

Rachel Schneider

4.2 AVERAGE

lucy_ah's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious 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

phaneem's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging tense medium-paced

sweetbevvyboo's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I forced myself to finish this book. I was enjoying it up until the end. There are lots of reviews that recommend this book based on the twist that it has. I do not think that twist was well executed, and it made me angry and unsure if this is a series that I would want to continue.

madameskittle's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous informative mysterious relaxing medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

All I knew going into this is that there is a twist in it that u will never see coming? And to go in blind otherwise (dont even read the back of the book/synopsis its better that way) and they were right!

I kept trying to theorize thruout the book. NOPE! u will not see this coming. Now I almost want to reread it all to see if there were clues but i dont think so? So i need book 2 soon please lol

lattepixie's review against another edition

2.0

This book needs world building. Like, a lot. Seriously, there is an entire group of people who can't go on land, but somehow live in trees? It is minimally discussed (and because of that, makes no sense to me tbh). If the world was built out, I feel like this would have absolutely had the potential to be at least a four star read to me....until the end. There are two ways that we could have gotten the ending we did and had it work. The first would have been to have it all up front (I'm thinking like The Bridge Kingdom). Have the chapter of Jovi/B talking to Kai about their plan before it happens, and have her slowly feel guilty for it throughout and end up modifying her plan based on the love of Acker. The second, which involve modifying the story much more but would probably be better is to have this NOT be a first-person single POV. Alternatively maybe some magical intervention/interference to make Jovi/B forget her initial goal? But there is absolutely no way a person, whose POV we even get while she is sleeping, wouldn't think about her plan at all for the entire time covered by this story.

So, basically, I will not be continuing the series unless the FOMO gets completely out of control and I also run out of books on my TBR....so pretty unlikely.