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A review by akazen
Ignite the Stars by Maura Milan
3.0
This was an enjoyable story, I've been aching to read some sci-fi nevertheless this is certainly more YA SciFi. It reminds me a bit of the Skyward series by Brandon Sando, very different but similar. This is by far not a bad story, I read it within 4ish hours.
I found the world-building a bit disappointing, to be honest. I find a lot of these stories never actually explain the 'world' going on but I really wish they did. For example, we are told about 'known galaxies', 'this side of the universe' or how the ArcLite connects the known galaxies but we don't find out any more about that or the technology than the extremely basic parts; also, I wonder if it is one of the habits of stories to say galaxies as another means of saying solar systems or star groups. Oh yeah, don't forget the teasing with multiverse being mentioned once or twice, I'm not sure whether it is just buzzwords being thrown around, but it really lacks in the SCIFI aspects. I really feel like there should have been other factions (there usually are when there are super large space groups like the Commonwealth/RSF).
I'm still going to read the sequel
I found the world-building a bit disappointing, to be honest. I find a lot of these stories never actually explain the 'world' going on but I really wish they did. For example, we are told about 'known galaxies', 'this side of the universe' or how the ArcLite connects the known galaxies but we don't find out any more about that or the technology than the extremely basic parts; also, I wonder if it is one of the habits of stories to say galaxies as another means of saying solar systems or star groups. Oh yeah, don't forget the teasing with multiverse being mentioned once or twice, I'm not sure whether it is just buzzwords being thrown around, but it really lacks in the SCIFI aspects. I really feel like there should have been other factions (there usually are when there are super large space groups like the Commonwealth/RSF).
I'm still going to read the sequel