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A review by galacticvampire
A Sky Beyond the Storm by Sabaa Tahir
2.75
I'm only giving this 2.75 because the previous one is definitely worse.
I feel that I'm repeating myself everytime, but this series has no excuse at all to be 4 books long. Not enough happens on this finale to make the (very plotless) 3rd book necessary and they could've been easily merged.
My opinion of the characters didn't change through the whole thing and it's not changing now: Elias is the most likeable character, Helene is the one which with the plot actually happens, and Laia is there being stupid.
I can count at least 4 times through the book where she went exactly like:
Someone tells her it's not a good idea, she goes "This is a good idea! I know best and you can't control me!". Two paragraphs later "I am so stupid boohoo". And the problem is that this keeps repeating, she never learns! It's annoying!
About halfway through until around 75% in I thought the story was going to redeem itself with a good closure but there were so many plot points that were either dropped out or plucked from the void that there's no payoff. I'm convinced Sabaa Tahir doesn't understand the concept of foreshadowing because there's logical progression of events, it's like the first two books are from a completely different series from the other half.
The ending result is extremely underwhelming (Helene's powers? The Scholar Revolution? No sight of them. Keris "story" that was teased from the start is just bland. There's a total Deux Ex Machina move out of nowhere), even if I have to praise the guts to actually kill a bunch of characters, and I close this book knowing I won't ever think of any of these characters again.
I feel that I'm repeating myself everytime, but this series has no excuse at all to be 4 books long. Not enough happens on this finale to make the (very plotless) 3rd book necessary and they could've been easily merged.
My opinion of the characters didn't change through the whole thing and it's not changing now: Elias is the most likeable character, Helene is the one which with the plot actually happens, and Laia is there being stupid.
I can count at least 4 times through the book where she went exactly like:
Someone tells her it's not a good idea, she goes "This is a good idea! I know best and you can't control me!". Two paragraphs later "I am so stupid boohoo". And the problem is that this keeps repeating, she never learns! It's annoying!
About halfway through until around 75% in I thought the story was going to redeem itself with a good closure but there were so many plot points that were either dropped out or plucked from the void that there's no payoff. I'm convinced Sabaa Tahir doesn't understand the concept of foreshadowing because there's logical progression of events, it's like the first two books are from a completely different series from the other half.
The ending result is extremely underwhelming (Helene's powers? The Scholar Revolution? No sight of them. Keris "story" that was teased from the start is just bland. There's a total Deux Ex Machina move out of nowhere), even if I have to praise the guts to actually kill a bunch of characters, and I close this book knowing I won't ever think of any of these characters again.