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Defy the Stars
by Claudia Gray
I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via netgalley.
sometimes I am reminded of how many books I read and how forgetful I am in a "fun" way. case in point. I saw this on netgalley. I thought, Claudia Gray, that name is familiar, I must have read some of her books, didn't she write the star wars one? I didn't hate it. COMPLETELY forgetting that she also wrote the firebird trilogy, a series of books which I progressively loathed more with each new book. I read so many books that I sometimes vaguely recognize author names but can't identify their corpus before I go ahead and start reading a new one. sigh. this is the whole point of goodreads - so that I can look them up first. total fail on my part.
all that said this can be filed more under the "not terrible" category of that star wars one I read. or even the first firebird book before my complete disgust of the "heroine" took over.
things which were fun: space gates, space ships, Virginia, and Abel.
things which were less fun: paint by numbers storytelling, primarily dull romance (I understand it's hard when one half of it is a robot and the other half is Abel. ba dum ching. that's funny see because of how Noemi is pretty wooden throughout and yet Abel is the actual robot. but actually, yes, Abel is totally robotic a lot of the time too due to his programming and you know honestly these were two people who were going to have a tough time emoting a convincing relationship to the reader no matter what. you tried, honey, but your initial mistake was creating (figuratively) lead hearted heroes).
it's a first book in a series so the semi boring set up exposition is maybe to be expected. the introduction of several characters and then their departure from the storyline might mean they're coming back and not just that they were meaningless filler. time will tell. but I probably won't because unless I forget who she is again - (quite likely) - i have no real intention of reading the sequel.
it wasn't terrible. it just wasn't for me. if you liked firebird you'll most likely love it.
my review of firebird 1: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1186496944
firebird 2: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1549787885
firebird 3 where my language gets dirty: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1593656026
that star wars one I read: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1516834995
sometimes I am reminded of how many books I read and how forgetful I am in a "fun" way. case in point. I saw this on netgalley. I thought, Claudia Gray, that name is familiar, I must have read some of her books, didn't she write the star wars one? I didn't hate it. COMPLETELY forgetting that she also wrote the firebird trilogy, a series of books which I progressively loathed more with each new book. I read so many books that I sometimes vaguely recognize author names but can't identify their corpus before I go ahead and start reading a new one. sigh. this is the whole point of goodreads - so that I can look them up first. total fail on my part.
all that said this can be filed more under the "not terrible" category of that star wars one I read. or even the first firebird book before my complete disgust of the "heroine" took over.
things which were fun: space gates, space ships, Virginia, and Abel.
things which were less fun: paint by numbers storytelling, primarily dull romance (I understand it's hard when one half of it is a robot and the other half is Abel. ba dum ching. that's funny see because of how Noemi is pretty wooden throughout and yet Abel is the actual robot. but actually, yes, Abel is totally robotic a lot of the time too due to his programming and you know honestly these were two people who were going to have a tough time emoting a convincing relationship to the reader no matter what. you tried, honey, but your initial mistake was creating (figuratively) lead hearted heroes).
it's a first book in a series so the semi boring set up exposition is maybe to be expected. the introduction of several characters and then their departure from the storyline might mean they're coming back and not just that they were meaningless filler. time will tell. but I probably won't because unless I forget who she is again - (quite likely) - i have no real intention of reading the sequel.
it wasn't terrible. it just wasn't for me. if you liked firebird you'll most likely love it.
my review of firebird 1: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1186496944
firebird 2: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1549787885
firebird 3 where my language gets dirty: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1593656026
that star wars one I read: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1516834995