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A review by kiiouex
The Harbors of the Sun by Martha Wells
3.0
This book was pretty much Fine, but it missed a lot of chances to be Great
My favourite Raksura books are the first and third ones, which are the ones with the most court drama. I didn't like the second and fourth as much, which felt more action-adventure. This one is action-adventure. It's also a very immediate sequel to a book I read a while ago, which really scrubs the minor characters from memory, whoops!
Anyway, there were some parts I really liked (anything to do with the half-Fell flight is Good, I love Consolation with all my heart and wish there had been more of her, and I loved Pearl and Malachite's friendship) But it suffered the same kind of problem a couple of these books have, which is that it never really got close enough to the characters to be intimate. All these great set ups for drama, but we're zoomed too far out, or things get resolved really quickly, when I'd prefer to just wallow in a scene for a bit. Very little happens for the first 150 pages or so, I don't think the split PoVs help, and all the non-Moon Raksura feel very similar.
I still like this series, I still like Moon an awful lot, but I want more payoff! Maybe it's time to turn to fic, hah
My favourite Raksura books are the first and third ones, which are the ones with the most court drama. I didn't like the second and fourth as much, which felt more action-adventure. This one is action-adventure. It's also a very immediate sequel to a book I read a while ago, which really scrubs the minor characters from memory, whoops!
Anyway, there were some parts I really liked (anything to do with the half-Fell flight is Good, I love Consolation with all my heart and wish there had been more of her, and I loved Pearl and Malachite's friendship) But it suffered the same kind of problem a couple of these books have, which is that it never really got close enough to the characters to be intimate. All these great set ups for drama, but we're zoomed too far out, or things get resolved really quickly, when I'd prefer to just wallow in a scene for a bit. Very little happens for the first 150 pages or so, I don't think the split PoVs help, and all the non-Moon Raksura feel very similar.
I still like this series, I still like Moon an awful lot, but I want more payoff! Maybe it's time to turn to fic, hah