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A review by lainy122
Void Black Shadow by Corey J. White
3.0
Holy crap this series got dark fast.
'Killing Gravity' was a fast paced adventurous romp with fantastic world building and brilliantly diverse characters who were fun to cheer on. There is very little cheering in 'Void Black Shadow'. Instead of whacky adventures, we spend the majority of the book in a really really bad space prison. Where really really bad things happen.
The tone shift is huge, especially reading these two books back to back.
The protagonist in the first book was just coming into her super spacey powers, and here they have become fully realised; unfortunately at the same time her moral compass has degraded from wobbling a bit back and forth to completely spinning around out of control. Events conspire to test her already nebulous sense of right and wrong, and though Mars recognises in herself her increasing ability to brush aside the value of a human life, she doesn't really do anything to mitigate it - if anything she starts to embrace it.
The body count for this one is off the charts people!
I can't help but wonder how different the outcome for Mars would have been if my fav character from the first book - Squid, who is the best you guys - had been able to feature more prominently in the events leading up to climax of the novel.
Not the light-hearted romp I signed up for based on the first Voidwitch book, but I still can't wait to see what's going to happen when the dust settles.
'Killing Gravity' was a fast paced adventurous romp with fantastic world building and brilliantly diverse characters who were fun to cheer on. There is very little cheering in 'Void Black Shadow'. Instead of whacky adventures, we spend the majority of the book in a really really bad space prison. Where really really bad things happen.
The tone shift is huge, especially reading these two books back to back.
The protagonist in the first book was just coming into her super spacey powers, and here they have become fully realised; unfortunately at the same time her moral compass has degraded from wobbling a bit back and forth to completely spinning around out of control. Events conspire to test her already nebulous sense of right and wrong, and though Mars recognises in herself her increasing ability to brush aside the value of a human life, she doesn't really do anything to mitigate it - if anything she starts to embrace it.
The body count for this one is off the charts people!
I can't help but wonder how different the outcome for Mars would have been if my fav character from the first book - Squid, who is the best you guys - had been able to feature more prominently in the events leading up to climax of the novel.
Not the light-hearted romp I signed up for based on the first Voidwitch book, but I still can't wait to see what's going to happen when the dust settles.