A review by iforgotilivedhere
Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorse

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

This trilogy was so fucking ambtious that at some points in the story it lost me. Roanhorse forgets some of her characters and then remembers them and then and it feels like catch up work once they’re introduced into the story again. Okoa suffered through this book. Not in a good character development way, but in an annoying badly done way. I despised him and it felt as tho Roanhorse felt like she had to have him in the story and tried very hard to find a way to make him understandable, but hurt his characrer development and story in the process. He isn’t a character, more of a plot device. And even Xiala felt that way sometimes through the story. At some points, she was an amazing character and other points, she was fucking plot than character. I find that Roanhorse doesn’t know the in between for her characters. Either they are plot or well rounded complex characters. And that is so fucking annoying. I love Naranpa and Iktan sm tho, but I found their ending rather predictable. Along with the reveal about the connection between Serapio and Balam. 
I love this world sm tho. The Meridian is so beautifully described and you can legit tell that Roanhorse loves it too. It’s a world full of love from its author, but goddamn, this book slogged at some points. I really did love the first two books, but this wasn’t a good conclusion. It could’ve been shorter, the world needed some flushing out. It also needed more Naranpa and Iktan. I love them sm. Less Okoa. He’s boring. So fucking boring.