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A review by poisonenvy
City of Stars by Mary Hoffman
adventurous
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
This is the second book in Mary Hoffman's Stravaganza series, and this time we follow Georgia, a horse-loving girl who had gone to the same school as Lucien, the main character from the last book, who finds herself in Remora, the parallel universe's version of Seina, Italy.
I had... a lot more problems with this book than I did the last one. The writing's still choppy. The main character has major Not Like Other Girls energy (which is a phrase used at least three or four times throughout the narrative). And there's a liberal sprinkling of slurs (which are depicted negatively in the narrative, but it still seemed like a lot of ableist/homophobic slurs, even if this was written in the early aughts).
But hey, it was still fun. It clued me into a cool new horse race in Seinna. The main character is a horse girl. There's a horse with wings in it, which I'm pretty keen on. And, weirdly, out of four new books that I started recently, three of them (all from different authors, all with different styles, vibes, and genres) that had a character named Cesare, so that's fun.
I had... a lot more problems with this book than I did the last one. The writing's still choppy. The main character has major Not Like Other Girls energy (which is a phrase used at least three or four times throughout the narrative). And there's a liberal sprinkling of slurs (which are depicted negatively in the narrative, but it still seemed like a lot of ableist/homophobic slurs, even if this was written in the early aughts).
But hey, it was still fun. It clued me into a cool new horse race in Seinna. The main character is a horse girl. There's a horse with wings in it, which I'm pretty keen on. And, weirdly, out of four new books that I started recently, three of them (all from different authors, all with different styles, vibes, and genres) that had a character named Cesare, so that's fun.