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A review by ielerol
Catalyst Gate by Megan E. O'Keefe
adventurous
medium-paced
3.0
Is this book good? Did I like it? I don't know! I think maybe it's kind of a mess? I'm sure that I read the whole thing, and it is very long so that's something. But I'm also sure I only cared or paid attention to part of it. Once again there were just too many points of view, too many characters, too many twists that became more exhausting than anything else. Part of why I don't feel like I know how to judge the book is that I just kinda let the actual plot wash over me and only paid attention to like, events, and action scenes, to the extent that they delivered me character moments. There's a lot of alien shenanigans and complicated political conniving, abuse of power comes as no surprise, etc, etc, sure whatever, give me more scenes of Sanda getting lectured about how she needs to talk to someone about her feelings.
My favorite part of this series remains the very beginning when it was just Sanda and Bero, and they're still the pair I care about the most, with some room for Tomas, and eventually...Rost? I thought he was pretty sus in the last book, and he sure was keeping a doozy of a secret, but maybe he is ok after all. Poor Biren spent the whole trilogy miserable, he deserves something nice even if I never cared that much about what he was doing.
Jules probably also deserves not to be miserable but she only exists in this story to suffer and the more fucked up and obsessive her storyline got, the clearer it became she would not once get a chance to do anything but suffer.
My favorite part of this series remains the very beginning when it was just Sanda and Bero, and they're still the pair I care about the most, with some room for Tomas, and eventually...Rost? I thought he was pretty sus in the last book, and he sure was keeping a doozy of a secret, but maybe he is ok after all. Poor Biren spent the whole trilogy miserable, he deserves something nice even if I never cared that much about what he was doing.
Jules probably also deserves not to be miserable but she only exists in this story to suffer and the more fucked up and obsessive her storyline got, the clearer it became she would not once get a chance to do anything but suffer.