A review by ele_b
Starry River of the Sky by Grace Lin

3.0

Not as good as the first, but I still really enjoyed it. It does not suffer in anyway from 'sequal syndrome', and the stories were woven in much more fluently in this one, and I loved the way the two novels were related. However, I do feel that the ending was rather harmful - as to quote something someone once said about how Dumbledore left Harry Potter with the Dursleys, "There is never an excuse to leave a child with an abuser". The ending really undermined the importance of escaping abuse, which I was therefore very unhappy with it, so keep that in mind if you are reading this to a child, or are a child/young teen.