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A review by arrk33
The Bone Shard War by Andrea Stewart
3.0
2.5 ⭐️What a frustrating conclusion to this trilogy. I found myself just wanting it to end! I’m not sure if the author was facing a lot of pressure to publish by a certain time or what, but the writing in this book was just sloppy. I had a hard time tracking who was talking, who was being talked about, where everything was, how far apart things were, size and scale, and how much time was passing. This reads like a very rough draft that needs to be cut to shreds to find the actual story.
The only reason this gets 2.5 stars is because of the ossalen. I have dogs and while I know they don’t speak, they definitely seem to sometimes. And while I don’t have Alanga strength, they do give me an emotional strength!
Also, they did Jovis so dirty!! His and Lin’s relationship was a huge draw for me in book 2 and for this to be how it played out…spending 90% of the book apart, and then he gets almost killed but saved by magic amnesia water??? I kept thinking that the water that Ranami and Ayesh found was ossalen blood and maybe you lose a memory if it’s not your ossalen, but NOPE!! Just unexplained magic amnesia water.
Just overall super disappointing and colors the previous books in the series due to a very unsatisfying conclusion.
The only reason this gets 2.5 stars is because of the ossalen. I have dogs and while I know they don’t speak, they definitely seem to sometimes. And while I don’t have Alanga strength, they do give me an emotional strength!
Also, they did Jovis so dirty!! His and Lin’s relationship was a huge draw for me in book 2 and for this to be how it played out…spending 90% of the book apart, and then he gets almost killed but saved by magic amnesia water??? I kept thinking that the water that Ranami and Ayesh found was ossalen blood and maybe you lose a memory if it’s not your ossalen, but NOPE!! Just unexplained magic amnesia water.
Just overall super disappointing and colors the previous books in the series due to a very unsatisfying conclusion.