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A review by fictionandfloraa
Ten Thousand Skies Above You: A Firebird Novel by Claudia Gray
3.0
3.5 stars. RTC.
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Ten Thousand Skies Above You gave me some of the things that I wanted more of in the first book, but it also gave me more of something I didn’t want. This book was a great sequel. I feel like it gave all the big reveals at the right times. Leaving the reader in suspense, but not for so long that it was frustrating. I think the story was complicated but compelling. There were so many different dynamics and questions that were brought up like the ethical and moral complications of inhabiting yourself from another reality and making choices for them. I thought it brought up some interesting conversations.
Marguerite was honestly a little annoying in this second book. She’s conflicted between the differences in the people she loves that she’s met in other realities. She’s not sure if the soul is consistent with every version that she meets. After meeting some less than nice versions of the man she loves, she’s unsure how to feel about the darkness she now knows lives in all the different versions of him. She’s also faced with some ethical complications that have arisen because of the choices she made while inhabiting another reality’s Marguerite. This provided interesting conversation about everything that they were trying to do. But despite these interesting problems there was a constant dialogue about whether she loved one boy or another. The dreaded love triangle. It’s here and it’s annoying.
Even though I didn’t enjoy the love triangle aspect, I did really like the two characters that are the cause of it. I love that they are friends with one another and are choosing not to let their feelings for Marguerite get in the way of their own relationship. I also really liked getting to learn more about their pasts.
My favorite thing about this book was the other universes we got to visit. They were all so different and some were just downright frightening. I enjoyed getting this view into the other kinds of worlds that could be out there and the effects that one choice could have on the world. I liked being able to meet all the different versions of the characters.
I thought the villain became way more complicated in this sequel. The person we thought was the big bad in the first book was actually working for someone else. It was really interesting because the reasoning behind their actions was out of love, even though their actions were not that great. I’m interested to see how things will play out in the final book.
Overall, this story was more complex than I was expecting. I think I liked this one more than the first and I’m excited to continue and see how the rest of the story will conclude. There were things I liked and others that I didn’t, but like I said in my review for the first book, this would be great for someone that is new to the science fiction genre or for those that like less science-y scifi.
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Ten Thousand Skies Above You gave me some of the things that I wanted more of in the first book, but it also gave me more of something I didn’t want. This book was a great sequel. I feel like it gave all the big reveals at the right times. Leaving the reader in suspense, but not for so long that it was frustrating. I think the story was complicated but compelling. There were so many different dynamics and questions that were brought up like the ethical and moral complications of inhabiting yourself from another reality and making choices for them. I thought it brought up some interesting conversations.
Marguerite was honestly a little annoying in this second book. She’s conflicted between the differences in the people she loves that she’s met in other realities. She’s not sure if the soul is consistent with every version that she meets. After meeting some less than nice versions of the man she loves, she’s unsure how to feel about the darkness she now knows lives in all the different versions of him. She’s also faced with some ethical complications that have arisen because of the choices she made while inhabiting another reality’s Marguerite. This provided interesting conversation about everything that they were trying to do. But despite these interesting problems there was a constant dialogue about whether she loved one boy or another. The dreaded love triangle. It’s here and it’s annoying.
Even though I didn’t enjoy the love triangle aspect, I did really like the two characters that are the cause of it. I love that they are friends with one another and are choosing not to let their feelings for Marguerite get in the way of their own relationship. I also really liked getting to learn more about their pasts.
My favorite thing about this book was the other universes we got to visit. They were all so different and some were just downright frightening. I enjoyed getting this view into the other kinds of worlds that could be out there and the effects that one choice could have on the world. I liked being able to meet all the different versions of the characters.
I thought the villain became way more complicated in this sequel. The person we thought was the big bad in the first book was actually working for someone else. It was really interesting because the reasoning behind their actions was out of love, even though their actions were not that great. I’m interested to see how things will play out in the final book.
Overall, this story was more complex than I was expecting. I think I liked this one more than the first and I’m excited to continue and see how the rest of the story will conclude. There were things I liked and others that I didn’t, but like I said in my review for the first book, this would be great for someone that is new to the science fiction genre or for those that like less science-y scifi.