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A review by ktjames
Made of Stars by Jenna Voris
2.0
I received an early copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. To find my review in ASL, here is the link: https://www.tiktok.com/@authorktjames/video/7227942007736421674
I was excited to read this book because I have really gotten into Sci-Fi and with it being YA, I wanted really wanted to enjoy it! Unfortunately, I read about half of it before I put it down to DNF. Perhaps I will try reading it at a different time, but the book just didn't hold me and I couldn't really follow the world-building (it felt flat).
A big portion of why I lost interest is because I didn't care about the characters. At times there was a massive dump of information and other times, there wasn't enough. It started with a prison break, but you have no background to believe the characters could break one out of prison, and didn't seem believable. The second part opened with torturing a captain, but you don't know how they got to there - you didn't learn who Shane was until that chapter in the captain's thoughts.
I am picky when reading multiple POVs (more than 2); many times the story ends up focusing on just one or two of the characters rather than all the different POVs, which is the same thing that happened here. There were characters from Shane, Ava, and Cyrus' POV but mostly just Shane and Cyrus.
There was also a corrupt government angle; which was expected and had some interesting aspects, but I just felt it wasn't fully fleshed out.
Overall, I just didn't connect to the characters or have really enough understanding of them and the world.
Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for giving me access to an early copy of this novel in exchange for my honest review.
I was excited to read this book because I have really gotten into Sci-Fi and with it being YA, I wanted really wanted to enjoy it! Unfortunately, I read about half of it before I put it down to DNF. Perhaps I will try reading it at a different time, but the book just didn't hold me and I couldn't really follow the world-building (it felt flat).
A big portion of why I lost interest is because I didn't care about the characters. At times there was a massive dump of information and other times, there wasn't enough. It started with a prison break, but you have no background to believe the characters could break one out of prison, and didn't seem believable. The second part opened with torturing a captain, but you don't know how they got to there - you didn't learn who Shane was until that chapter in the captain's thoughts.
I am picky when reading multiple POVs (more than 2); many times the story ends up focusing on just one or two of the characters rather than all the different POVs, which is the same thing that happened here. There were characters from Shane, Ava, and Cyrus' POV but mostly just Shane and Cyrus.
There was also a corrupt government angle; which was expected and had some interesting aspects, but I just felt it wasn't fully fleshed out.
Overall, I just didn't connect to the characters or have really enough understanding of them and the world.
Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for giving me access to an early copy of this novel in exchange for my honest review.