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A review by starfilled_bookshelf
Suns Will Rise by Jessica Brody, Joanne Rendell
2.0
I really enjoyed the first two books of this series but could not find myself to enjoy a majority of this one. The pacing seemed off - spending so much time just not doing anything that by the time the book was wrapping up I couldn't find myself caring about any of it. So much of this book was speeches, sitting around or getting into a conflict that never had any meaning by the end.
A good chunk of this book is set aside for receiving the bricks the camp needs to stay hidden - but there's never an explanation on who actually stole it and why they didn't rat the camp out. They also never get the supplies back and it's just set up for the war machines reveal - which is resolved in two sentences at the end and no one really thinks about this at all.
The characters seemed to have drastically different charactizations from the previous two books or even different charactization from a previous chapter - including characters seemingly no longer caring for someone they cared about in a previous book. Gabriel and Alouette are friends in book 2, have history from their childhood, he literally takes a stun bullet for her but neither of them care enough to ask about the other. Gabriel is now so obsessed with Cerise - I don't even wanna get into this but I hated this - that no one else matters anymore.
And there were so much seemingly happening off screen that we never got to see and just had to accept for what it was, meaning we not got any real explanation for things. Chatine tells her brother that they're related off page in book 2 and it's in part 3 of this book when you realize that this actually happened - though she seemingly never tells him that they have an older sister. Gabriel gets unstuck from underneath a barricade to end up in the sewers with no explanation on how he got there let alone the fact Hugo carried him back to the place. Jorlas just seemingly trusts the Inspector and we still never know /why/ - it's also to a point where Max trusts him and how? Why? There's no way I'm meant to be believe they just didn't recognize him when Hugo recognizes him /immediately/.
This book just felt so off and it was disappointing that it turned out this way.
A good chunk of this book is set aside for receiving the bricks the camp needs to stay hidden - but there's never an explanation on who actually stole it and why they didn't rat the camp out. They also never get the supplies back and it's just set up for the war machines reveal - which is resolved in two sentences at the end and no one really thinks about this at all.
The characters seemed to have drastically different charactizations from the previous two books or even different charactization from a previous chapter - including characters seemingly no longer caring for someone they cared about in a previous book. Gabriel and Alouette are friends in book 2, have history from their childhood, he literally takes a stun bullet for her but neither of them care enough to ask about the other. Gabriel is now so obsessed with Cerise - I don't even wanna get into this but I hated this - that no one else matters anymore.
And there were so much seemingly happening off screen that we never got to see and just had to accept for what it was, meaning we not got any real explanation for things. Chatine tells her brother that they're related off page in book 2 and it's in part 3 of this book when you realize that this actually happened - though she seemingly never tells him that they have an older sister. Gabriel gets unstuck from underneath a barricade to end up in the sewers with no explanation on how he got there let alone the fact Hugo carried him back to the place. Jorlas just seemingly trusts the Inspector and we still never know /why/ - it's also to a point where Max trusts him and how? Why? There's no way I'm meant to be believe they just didn't recognize him when Hugo recognizes him /immediately/.
This book just felt so off and it was disappointing that it turned out this way.