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A review by all_plot_and_bothered
Restless Stars by Susanne Valenti, Caroline Peckham
5.0
Zodiac Academy: Restless Stars is the gripping and satisfying final installment of the Zodiac Academy series. It picks up right where Sorrow and Starlight left off with the Vega twins trapped in a cave, facing a new villain in Clydinius, and needing to figure out how to escape and win a war in which they are seriously outnumbered.
This book is long, clocking in at over 1100 pages, and has a lot of different POVs. That being said, I do not feel like there was unnecessary filler like I did with Sorrow and Starlight. There was a LOT we still needed to unpack and get through to wrap up everything, and each POV serves a purpose or advances the story in some way (no Justin Masters nummy pouch nonsense chapters here). IMO, the way the multi-POVs were set up actually made for shorter chapters and better pacing.
There is a long build up to the big, final fight in the war against Lame Lionel, Lavinia, and Clydinius, but we are rewarded with an actual, major battle. It is always anticlimactic when there is so much build up only for the issues to be resolved quickly and easily at the very end of the book, and thankfully, that was not the case here. It is vicious, intense, heartbreaking, and comprises about 20% of the book.
In true Twisted Sisters fashion, there are plenty of twists, turns, and surprises in Restless Stars, along with some unlikely friends and allies made along the way. And like in Ruthless Boys, we’re gifted with multiple epilogues, some of which take some of our beloved characters places I was not anticipating.
It is so bittersweet that the series has ended, and it has left me in a serious book slump. But I feel like Restless Stars was a compelling and fitting conclusion to the series and did justice to the characters and stories we love. All hail the true queens
This book is long, clocking in at over 1100 pages, and has a lot of different POVs. That being said, I do not feel like there was unnecessary filler like I did with Sorrow and Starlight. There was a LOT we still needed to unpack and get through to wrap up everything, and each POV serves a purpose or advances the story in some way (no Justin Masters nummy pouch nonsense chapters here). IMO, the way the multi-POVs were set up actually made for shorter chapters and better pacing.
There is a long build up to the big, final fight in the war against Lame Lionel, Lavinia, and Clydinius, but we are rewarded with an actual, major battle. It is always anticlimactic when there is so much build up only for the issues to be resolved quickly and easily at the very end of the book, and thankfully, that was not the case here. It is vicious, intense, heartbreaking, and comprises about 20% of the book.
In true Twisted Sisters fashion, there are plenty of twists, turns, and surprises in Restless Stars, along with some unlikely friends and allies made along the way. And like in Ruthless Boys, we’re gifted with multiple epilogues, some of which take some of our beloved characters places I was not anticipating.
It is so bittersweet that the series has ended, and it has left me in a serious book slump. But I feel like Restless Stars was a compelling and fitting conclusion to the series and did justice to the characters and stories we love. All hail the true queens