A review by dinipandareads
Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse

4.0

Becky and I have finally continued our buddy read of this series and I'm glad not too much time has passed between our reads of books 1 and 2. A couple of days have passed since I finished reading this and the more I think about it, the more I realise that I enjoyed it a little less than I said I initially did. That's not to say this was a bad book and I'm still rating it 3.5-4 stars (rounded up!) but compared to the intensity, action and excitement that book 1 roused in me, this one fell quite flat. The story in this book was very much a filler and "setting the scene" for book 3 and while that's not necessarily a bad thing, I expected more.

One thing that Roanhorse never fails to do is reel me in. As the story picks up immediately where book 1 ends—with the world shrouded in a darkness that leaves everyone feeling uneasy and restless, I found myself falling easily back into this world, the character's lives and their stories. I loved that we got more world-building. We learned in greater detail the history of Tova and the Meridian, and how this world as we know it today came to be formed. There was a new type of magic that was introduced that I found cool, especially after it was thought to be a lost art due to its banishment following the Treaty. In this book, we're also treated to some old perspectives from Xiala, Naranpa, Okoa and (partially) Serapio, and we also learn more about certain characters such as a certain assassin priest...