A review by noirverse
The Stars Undying by Emery Robin

3.0

From the blurb, I immediately thought The Stars Undying would be a fantastic read. It turned out that it both is and isn't that. If I was rating this book on Act I alone it would easily be 4.5/5 stars. However, that level of quality didn't stay even for the entire story. I enjoy having a focus on characters, but the middle part made me feel restless for anything of note to happen when the characters themselves started to lose my interest, and it felt like things were happening just because history had it happen (I really did not care about that tour). It picked up again towards the end with all the politics even if it didn't save the overall experience for me as, again, the history it's inspired by felt like it was weighing over everything and making characters into puppets for the plot instead of having the characters stand on their own within the plot. In the end, I liked this okay but didn't love it which about sums it up.