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A review by jenny_librarian
Cataclysm by Lydia Kang
adventurous
dark
tense
medium-paced
3.0
The more I read phase 2, the less I like it 🙈 but this one takes the cake.
There is so much going on and no time to care about any of the characters. Contrarily to phase 1, they’re not really fleshed out beyond where they were when this or that happened. Most of the Jedi could be the same person and I wouldn’t even notice.
Xiri and Phan-Tu are interesting, but they’re overshadowed by all the other characters. Axel is downright stupid. Gella isn’t that much better. Binnot was ok as a villain (like we need more of those…) and we barely saw The Mother. The character that shone most in this story was Yaddle. Which is great because she is truly underrated. But also a little disappointing considering the sheer number of Jedi involved in the battle in Dalna.
The writing was also very rough. Multiple times I had to reread sentences to make sense of them. I didn’t mind that the whole second part of the book was one huge battle, but it’s how many POVs there were that made it drag. It might have worked for a TV series or a movie, but definitely not for a book.
I feel like this phase doesn’t add much to phase 1. Most players from Path of Deceit are dead, and the others got only a few scenes. It doesn’t feel as much like a prequel to phase 1 as just another set of events loosely related.
Here’s to hoping the last 2 novels bring something to make me care about…
There is so much going on and no time to care about any of the characters. Contrarily to phase 1, they’re not really fleshed out beyond where they were when this or that happened. Most of the Jedi could be the same person and I wouldn’t even notice.
Xiri and Phan-Tu are interesting, but they’re overshadowed by all the other characters. Axel is downright stupid. Gella isn’t that much better. Binnot was ok as a villain (like we need more of those…) and we barely saw The Mother. The character that shone most in this story was Yaddle. Which is great because she is truly underrated. But also a little disappointing considering the sheer number of Jedi involved in the battle in Dalna.
The writing was also very rough. Multiple times I had to reread sentences to make sense of them. I didn’t mind that the whole second part of the book was one huge battle, but it’s how many POVs there were that made it drag. It might have worked for a TV series or a movie, but definitely not for a book.
I feel like this phase doesn’t add much to phase 1. Most players from Path of Deceit are dead, and the others got only a few scenes. It doesn’t feel as much like a prequel to phase 1 as just another set of events loosely related.
Here’s to hoping the last 2 novels bring something to make me care about…
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, and War
Moderate: Body horror and Child death
Minor: Racism and Death of parent