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Steel Crow Saga
by Paul Krueger
3.5 stars!
This novel had such promise! Pokémon meets The Golden Compass?? It sounded like my cup of tea, and unfortunately it wasn’t. This book was pretty good, but there was something missing that I can’t fully define. It needed more context, more characterization, more follow-through for what it set out to be. I would have loved this book if the plot was more finely honed. There were too many characters that bled together for most of the book, and I felt like some of the bigger plot points were glossed over. So much happened at the end that ended up just feeling convenient and under-explained. I feel like this could’ve been a trilogy, going more in depth into the war (which has just finished when the book begins) and then what happened in this book. The concept is one of the coolest I’ve ever read, but the “Pokémon” aspect became much less of an important component than I thought it’d be.
This novel had such promise! Pokémon meets The Golden Compass?? It sounded like my cup of tea, and unfortunately it wasn’t. This book was pretty good, but there was something missing that I can’t fully define. It needed more context, more characterization, more follow-through for what it set out to be. I would have loved this book if the plot was more finely honed. There were too many characters that bled together for most of the book, and I felt like some of the bigger plot points were glossed over. So much happened at the end that ended up just feeling convenient and under-explained. I feel like this could’ve been a trilogy, going more in depth into the war (which has just finished when the book begins) and then what happened in this book. The concept is one of the coolest I’ve ever read, but the “Pokémon” aspect became much less of an important component than I thought it’d be.