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A review by sorayacorcoran
Soul of Stars by Ashley Poston
3.0
I had loved Heart of Iron, and I’m not sure what happened. Maybe my own tastes changed in the last year? It was a fast-paced adventure with fun characters. I love those kinds of stories.
In Soul of Stars, the stakes are higher, all life is in danger from “the Great Dark”. Poston attempts to keep the mood light though, and even running for their lives, characters are making jokes or sarcastic one-liners. It didn’t work for me. I struggled to love the same characters I loved in the first book, but much of the dialogue came off as forced. Not to mention the whole first half where A Character is nearly dying multiple times.
The “Great Dark” is a weak villain, not just in the sense that everything works easily for the characters, but it wasn’t interesting.
The first half of the book was almost a chore to read, and everything after that was hard to focus on. I still wanted to know what happened though, because there are characters I liked. Siege. Di. Otherwise I would have filed this under DNF.
In Soul of Stars, the stakes are higher, all life is in danger from “the Great Dark”. Poston attempts to keep the mood light though, and even running for their lives, characters are making jokes or sarcastic one-liners. It didn’t work for me. I struggled to love the same characters I loved in the first book, but much of the dialogue came off as forced. Not to mention the whole first half where A Character is nearly dying multiple times.
The “Great Dark” is a weak villain, not just in the sense that everything works easily for the characters, but it wasn’t interesting.
The first half of the book was almost a chore to read, and everything after that was hard to focus on. I still wanted to know what happened though, because there are characters I liked. Siege. Di. Otherwise I would have filed this under DNF.