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A review by vagaybond
Armistice by Lara Elena Donnelly
5.0
4.5 stars
I'm bad with remembering specifics so here's my summary of The Vibe.
This one starts a few years (3?) after the previous, in a new place. Cordelia is new to the place but Ari is not. It is the place Lillian was always in. some highjinx include things like double agenting, reverse kidnapping??? (Kidnapping but like taking child back to his mother.) and hope rising and falling when you're put in a hard place. And fighting even when you don't have hope, I guess, because there is the compulsion to do so. Because if you're going to go down, if everyone you love goes down, you need to give your vengeance to those who are putting you down. Stall your death as long as you can.
And these characters are really growing on me. They are each So Much their own people. And I love them.
I feel like the book got continually better as it went on. I read some reviews about it being hard to follow, and may have been primed to expect that but didn't feel like it was that huge compared to the other stuff. Maybe kind of hard because I'm bad with names of characters. In particular, I confused some of the newer man characters with similar narrator accents (in audiobook version) but this is just normal for me anyway. I found the first book a lot harder to follow tbh.
I look forward to the next one because I've really fallen in love with this.
I'm bad with remembering specifics so here's my summary of The Vibe.
This one starts a few years (3?) after the previous, in a new place. Cordelia is new to the place but Ari is not. It is the place Lillian was always in. some highjinx include things like double agenting, reverse kidnapping??? (Kidnapping but like taking child back to his mother.) and hope rising and falling when you're put in a hard place. And fighting even when you don't have hope, I guess, because there is the compulsion to do so. Because if you're going to go down, if everyone you love goes down, you need to give your vengeance to those who are putting you down. Stall your death as long as you can.
And these characters are really growing on me. They are each So Much their own people. And I love them.
I feel like the book got continually better as it went on. I read some reviews about it being hard to follow, and may have been primed to expect that but didn't feel like it was that huge compared to the other stuff. Maybe kind of hard because I'm bad with names of characters. In particular, I confused some of the newer man characters with similar narrator accents (in audiobook version) but this is just normal for me anyway. I found the first book a lot harder to follow tbh.
I look forward to the next one because I've really fallen in love with this.