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A review by seerdeer
Galactic Hellcats by Marie Vibbert
2.0
This was one of the books I had been very excited to get into and found myself walking away terribly disappointed.
From the setup of the book, what I thought I was getting was maybe a chapter or two of this ragtag group of people smashing together through a love of the solo-flyers they love getting into trouble all together. What I got was a somehow long drawn out set of surface interactions and almost comically bad choices where we got the whole gang together only right at the end it felt as a single unit. Even the name of the group, Galactic Hellcats felt like maybe just an afterthought as I can only think of two times it was mentioned by name, and one of those was when Ki came up with the name by herself!
When we finally got to what I wanted in the heist at the end of the book, well, you see the issue. It was the end of the book. Right as the book finally stopped spinning its wheels (ha) getting all of the gang together it was over. Perhaps I came in with the wrong expectations, but even then the way the characters interacted sometimes felt strange and almost forced but not in the way the book wanted.
The one truly good part of this book throughout is Ki, one of the main characters and who I would argue the only main character that should have narrated throughout. A fun character desperately trying to find something to hold onto with fake confidence that was the most charming of the bunch. Not one did I get tired of her character, and she shined all throughout.
As long as you know what kind of book your getting into, one focused on what feels like the prologue to a much bigger story that doesn't exist, I can't say it would be a bad read.
From the setup of the book, what I thought I was getting was maybe a chapter or two of this ragtag group of people smashing together through a love of the solo-flyers they love getting into trouble all together. What I got was a somehow long drawn out set of surface interactions and almost comically bad choices where we got the whole gang together only right at the end it felt as a single unit. Even the name of the group, Galactic Hellcats felt like maybe just an afterthought as I can only think of two times it was mentioned by name, and one of those was when Ki came up with the name by herself!
When we finally got to what I wanted in the heist at the end of the book, well, you see the issue. It was the end of the book. Right as the book finally stopped spinning its wheels (ha) getting all of the gang together it was over. Perhaps I came in with the wrong expectations, but even then the way the characters interacted sometimes felt strange and almost forced but not in the way the book wanted.
The one truly good part of this book throughout is Ki, one of the main characters and who I would argue the only main character that should have narrated throughout. A fun character desperately trying to find something to hold onto with fake confidence that was the most charming of the bunch. Not one did I get tired of her character, and she shined all throughout.
As long as you know what kind of book your getting into, one focused on what feels like the prologue to a much bigger story that doesn't exist, I can't say it would be a bad read.