tired_cicada 's review for:

Wings of Starlight by Allison Saft

3.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I hate to say that I was underwhelmed. Like the actual writing was beautiful and I liked the lore they added to pixie hallow but… it just wasn’t what I think it COULD have been. 

It really felt like the ending was shoehorned into making the ending happy while also keeping with the lore that that was set up in the movie and it’s just didn’t go well. 

Milori’s wings breaking was treated so casually and it kind of upset me. Like she showed significantly more emotion about Petra was put to sleep than she was about Milori sacrificing an actual limb and nearly dying for her! Like it gets brushed off so casually, and it not treated like the horrific tragedy it is! She more upset about TINKERBELL breaking her wing than she was about Milori! He deserved to have is sacrifice treated with the levity it deserved and it just wasn’t.

The story when it was its own thing was really good, but as soon as they tried to be true to the movie lore they lost it becasue they refused to treat this story like the tragedy it is. Their story was not bittersweet, they were a tragedy and they deserved to have that shown! 

So yeah, over all I just wanted it to be… more than what it was. I wanted it to live up to its potential and it just didn’t.