A review by vitalioreads
Clandestine by Sera Amoroso

4.0

Clandestine by Sera Amoroso ✨⚙

series: The Makria Cycle #2
genre: science fiction
format: e-arc
pages: 361
times read: 1
date (dd/mm/yy): 31/3/24-7/4/24
would reread: probs
rating: 4⭐

review:
Thank you Sera for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review

after having orchestrated the downfall of Leroy Parkes, the Torsion Gang (Astra tbh), is left to run the school but shit hits the fan when Astra needs to get her tech back from Leroy's cousin, Clay, so she sends her brother Xavier undercover.

Clandestine felt completely different from Torsion and the reason why is the fact that Sera's writing improved a lot. Where in Torsion there was more dialogue and less setting, in Clandestine there's equal parts dialogue and setting. Sera also did something that made me connect with the characters in Clandestine cs in Torsion I only REALLY vibed w/ Astra, Aiken and Zola but here the opposite happened tbh, I sort of started liking the other characters but Aiken and Astra felt weird and Aiken isn't MY character anymore :/. Xavi (Xavier), Cassie (Cassidy), Vee (Yvette), Isaac and Tessie (Tessa) are my babies now, like aaaaagh love them sm.

Aiken crossing it to the other side was smth I wasn't expecting tbh, like, I actually liked Alejo and Aiken going Jaime Lannister on him felt rlly off.

I stopped vibing with Astra the moment she said she'd kill Xavier if he failed like, girl you're saying you'd kill your brother if he failed to retrieve smth when it wasn't his fault it was stolen from you? nuh-uh, bad astra *sprays water*

I'm legit more interested in learning more abt Tess than I am abt Astra (still want to know abt her but not as much) like, finding out she was also an alien but not an Ara'cel had me like