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A review by the_fabric_of_words
The Map of Stars by Laura Ruby
5.0
The last book in the series kinda did what I knew it was going to do, wrap up with time-travel, but it's done in such a way you're not really sure everything works out alright until the very, very end....
I'm not spoiling it, I promise! But if you haven't read book 1, I strongly suggest you start at the beginning.
The book starts where the book two left off -- with the photo of the Morningstarrs. Only now you know, for sure, it's Tess and Theo Biedermann. They don't believe it, but there's no other way all of this could have been possible. Some sort of time travel has got to be going on. Jaime Cruz begins to unravel the clues, starting with the Morningstarrs building York more than 160 years ago...
In fact, the current Mayor is buying up the Morningstarr buildings and running on a platform of razing them, tearing them down to their roots and starting over, shiny and brand new, adding new features for the city, and to heck with the old, pain-in-the-keister cipher no one can solve.
Except the Bidermanns are still finding pieces. This time, they're pieces to a physical puzzle -- something they must put together from the pieces of strange and oddly unrelated objects, such as discarded dolls' heads.
The narrative takes a point-of-view and time-shift, so the reader gets a glimpse of what's going on in the Morningstarr's past. And it's not what you expect, not at all. York is not a bright, bustling city. It's falling apart, the Morningstarrs are on the brink of starvation. It's grim, they're on the verge of defeat. It's not Theo and Tess' history.
As a reader, you kinda know where this is going, so I won't spoil it by revealing any more.
Just know, this was a satisfying series conclusion, even if time travel and all its possibilities make my head hurt.
Visit my blog for more great middle grade book recommendations, free teaching materials and fiction writing tips: https://amb.mystrikingly.com/
I'm not spoiling it, I promise! But if you haven't read book 1, I strongly suggest you start at the beginning.
The book starts where the book two left off -- with the photo of the Morningstarrs. Only now you know, for sure, it's Tess and Theo Biedermann. They don't believe it, but there's no other way all of this could have been possible. Some sort of time travel has got to be going on. Jaime Cruz begins to unravel the clues, starting with the Morningstarrs building York more than 160 years ago...
In fact, the current Mayor is buying up the Morningstarr buildings and running on a platform of razing them, tearing them down to their roots and starting over, shiny and brand new, adding new features for the city, and to heck with the old, pain-in-the-keister cipher no one can solve.
Except the Bidermanns are still finding pieces. This time, they're pieces to a physical puzzle -- something they must put together from the pieces of strange and oddly unrelated objects, such as discarded dolls' heads.
The narrative takes a point-of-view and time-shift, so the reader gets a glimpse of what's going on in the Morningstarr's past. And it's not what you expect, not at all. York is not a bright, bustling city. It's falling apart, the Morningstarrs are on the brink of starvation. It's grim, they're on the verge of defeat. It's not Theo and Tess' history.
As a reader, you kinda know where this is going, so I won't spoil it by revealing any more.
Just know, this was a satisfying series conclusion, even if time travel and all its possibilities make my head hurt.
Visit my blog for more great middle grade book recommendations, free teaching materials and fiction writing tips: https://amb.mystrikingly.com/