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

4.0

Ivan and I listened to this, and we both agreed that we liked Where the Mountain Meets the Moon better. I think it's because Minli has an active quest - she spends the entire book trying to do something, and then realizes over the course of her quest that it's a false goal, that she's learned something along the way. Whereas in this book Rendi has essentially stagnated, and it's only when those lessons are essentially forced upon him that he changes. It effects the momentum of the whole book.

That's not to say that we didn't still enjoy the book thoroughly, and that we're not waiting eagerly for the next in the trilogy to be published this fall. It's hard to be a sequel to such a stunning book as Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, because comparisons are both inevitable and almost unfair.