A review by a_ghostintheroom
Heir to the Sky by Amanda Sun

3.0

Honestly, this book at all the potential in the world and it fell and felt flat. It was incredibly disappointing to try to read this after finishing Harry Potter and it was my mistake to attempt that. I may as well just reread Harry Potter for all this book was worth to me. Usually, when I dislike a book this much, I just stop reading it, but right now I'm hurting for books to read and I decided I needed to plow through as much as I wanted to put it down. My main qualms with this story lie in the actual storytelling. I always read book descriptions or jacket inserts before checking them out so you know anything I pick up, I have already loved the plot. So here's where I found issue: there's no plot, no story, but the paragraph written for the jacket. Sure, there's the whole conspiracy theme alongside it, but everything this story contained could be squished into one page. Everything else was extraneous, boring. The love interest was hailed as a monster hunter, and while that was true, he was also meek and soft and predictably the one of the big "reveals". He had no backbone except for the one the main character was holding upright, (the main character actually was alright, nothing special, but at least she wasn't a complete let down). Also, once the main character fell to the earth, in order for the author to move the story, she was chased by FIVE different monsters. I mean, this was the bulk of the story, main character falls to earth, sudden monster! Main character can't find water, sudden monster! Main character is with love interest, sudden monster! You get the idea. I suppose there's a world in which a different author could have balance it better, but this was not one. Another eye-rolling factor was the author's insistence on using the full spectrum of the rainbow to describe everything. It's as though the main character is running through some seriously bad acid trip. Everything is a damn kaleidoscope of color and you have to read about the hue of each leaf on every plant, because for some reason, they all seem to be a different color somehow? I found myself skimming much of this nonsense. In conclusion, if you're interested in this book, save yourself the time and only read the jacket summary and know you've basically read the whole book sans monsters and rainbow forests.