A review by ela_35
Stormrise by Jillian Boehme

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

 I liked this book, but I really need to find more adult retellings. 

I liked the plot, although I thought that the beliefs and history of this world could have been explained in a bit more detail. 

I liked Rain and how she didn’t let anything stop her. The other boys in her unit could have been really interesting characters, but they weren’t talked about enough and I think that some of them never even said anything. There was one side character that I had a big problem with. Throughout the whole book Sedge is rude, insulting and has disgusting behaviour, but at the end of the book he does one thing right and suddenly everything else was forgotten. I liked the idea of Nuaga, the dragon, but she wasn’t shown much. 

There could have been more scenes when Rain was interacting with the others, or when they were training. 

The end was fine, but I thought that it could have been longer to show what Rain’s normal life would look like now.