A review by kayliew
The Stardust in the Ashes by Amber D. Lewis

4.0

I looooove this series. So so much. Which made me even more upset that I struggled a bit with this book. I felt like nothing happened the first 2/3 of the book. There’s some relationship development and characters working through trauma, and a lot of really great LGBTQ+ representation. But there was also a lot of talking about the weather each day and the same repetitive day after day that just could have been condensed.

My two favorite things about this series are the magic and the relationships, and there’s almost no magic use in this book, and almost all of the main characters are split up.

The direction/story of this book makes sense in the context of the bigger story, but on its own, I just didn’t enjoy reading it even close to as much as the other books.