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A review by starrysea98
Girls of Storm and Shadow by Natasha Ngan
4.0
a little bit conflicted about this one. while the writing remains superior, the story flounders.
this is, in essence, a quest/journey book and i am not here for it. basically, lei and her merry band of rebels have to travel around to forge alliances with various moon clans for the upcoming war against the king. sigh. i don’t deal well with journey storylines mainly because i can’t help but find it boring. i also disliked everyone on the crew except nitta and hiro. (sorry, bo. you tried hard - too damn hard - for me to like you).
while i appreciate the certain twists added to keep it all from being ho-hum, i liked even more lei starting to open her eyes and realise there’s more than a simple paper vs. king feud going on. her dawning realisation that wren is far from the girl she met in the paper house is a development i liked - they’re right, war isn’t black and white and the way ketai hannos taught his daughter may not be the best. lei has also grown to be more than the clueless, sheltered girl she was in book 1. she has a spark in her now and although i won’t go so far to say her point of view is more interesting, she certainly kept me reading to the very end.
(still.... naja’s chapter is also pretty good. i wish we could have had more of her perspective).
this is, in essence, a quest/journey book and i am not here for it. basically, lei and her merry band of rebels have to travel around to forge alliances with various moon clans for the upcoming war against the king. sigh. i don’t deal well with journey storylines mainly because i can’t help but find it boring. i also disliked everyone on the crew except nitta and hiro. (sorry, bo. you tried hard - too damn hard - for me to like you).
while i appreciate the certain twists added to keep it all from being ho-hum, i liked even more lei starting to open her eyes and realise there’s more than a simple paper vs. king feud going on. her dawning realisation that wren is far from the girl she met in the paper house is a development i liked - they’re right, war isn’t black and white and the way ketai hannos taught his daughter may not be the best. lei has also grown to be more than the clueless, sheltered girl she was in book 1. she has a spark in her now and although i won’t go so far to say her point of view is more interesting, she certainly kept me reading to the very end.
(still.... naja’s chapter is also pretty good. i wish we could have had more of her perspective).