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A review by halfcactus
Raven Stratagem by Yoon Ha Lee
slow-paced
3.0
This is an effective outsider's POV in that I got hysterically emotional whenever Cheris/Jedao so much as breathed. The POV is so opaque that I was fully attuned to every twitch of their fingers, hungrily hoarding every scrap of observation about them. Cheris/Jedao's entire existence is still very much an open wound to me, even though it's been a year since I read Ninefox Gambit. If I loved Cheris in the first book, I loved her 100 times more here, and I'm still just super emotional about her and Jedao's storyline, especially as Cheris continues to make the hard choices and attempt the impossible.
Overall Raven Stratagem feels very much like a transitional book. It introduced a host of new characters with their own sets of conflicts and decision-making, and I'm looking forward to getting to the end of the trilogy. I'm a huuuuuge fan of themes of loyalty, so watching the Kels be confronted with the meaning of it was 10/10.
This book also made me seriously contemplate growing my own spring onions, I was SO jealous of Mikodez. :(((((
Overall Raven Stratagem feels very much like a transitional book. It introduced a host of new characters with their own sets of conflicts and decision-making, and I'm looking forward to getting to the end of the trilogy. I'm a huuuuuge fan of themes of loyalty, so watching the Kels be confronted with the meaning of it was 10/10.
This book also made me seriously contemplate growing my own spring onions, I was SO jealous of Mikodez. :(((((