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A review by ravensandlace
The Vanishing Spark of Dusk by Sara Baysinger
4.0
A special thank you goes out to Entangled Teen for allowing me to read this early. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
Entangled Teen is back with a scifi book that thoroughly hooked me and left me breathless and wanting more of the characters and the world. In this book, Humans and other alien life are slaves to the Tavdorians, an alien race. They use slaves to take care of their planet. Lark becomes a slave and must figure out how to escape.
There were a lot of positives to outweigh the one negative that kept me from giving this book 5 (five) stars. One super positive was the message this book was delivering. Racism is rampant in this book. The MC, Lark, judges the Tavdorians just like the Tavdorians judge humans. During the course of this book, those feelings change and you start to see really growth from everyone and their prejudice slowly fade.
Another positive was the LGBT aspect. Kalen's sister had a girlfriend and no one thought twice about it. It was completely and totally accepted as an everyday thing as it should be. It pleases me that more and more books are doing this because honestly it's a part of everyday life. There is no reason it shouldn't be involved in books.
Speaking of Kalen, he made this book. He was so completely understanding and patient with Lark. I loved his saving people thing (as Hermione would say). He was just such an amazing person and I adored everything about his character. I wish we could have gotten a POV from him.
My only complain was Lark. For the most part, I enjoyed her POV. She had a great character arc, which you all know I'm a sucker for, but damn she made dumb decisions. I understood her need to escape slavery but she didn't think things through. She just let her emotions get in the way of her goal. It was frustrating at times.
Overall, I was totally enthralled. I would have loved to get more history of how the enslavement happened and what Earth is like. But I think Sara Baysinger has set up a really cool world. My only question is where is the sequel??
In everything you do, Lark, no matter the consequences, be heard.
Entangled Teen is back with a scifi book that thoroughly hooked me and left me breathless and wanting more of the characters and the world. In this book, Humans and other alien life are slaves to the Tavdorians, an alien race. They use slaves to take care of their planet. Lark becomes a slave and must figure out how to escape.
There were a lot of positives to outweigh the one negative that kept me from giving this book 5 (five) stars. One super positive was the message this book was delivering. Racism is rampant in this book. The MC, Lark, judges the Tavdorians just like the Tavdorians judge humans. During the course of this book, those feelings change and you start to see really growth from everyone and their prejudice slowly fade.
Another positive was the LGBT aspect. Kalen's sister had a girlfriend and no one thought twice about it. It was completely and totally accepted as an everyday thing as it should be. It pleases me that more and more books are doing this because honestly it's a part of everyday life. There is no reason it shouldn't be involved in books.
Speaking of Kalen, he made this book. He was so completely understanding and patient with Lark. I loved his saving people thing (as Hermione would say). He was just such an amazing person and I adored everything about his character. I wish we could have gotten a POV from him.
My only complain was Lark. For the most part, I enjoyed her POV. She had a great character arc, which you all know I'm a sucker for, but damn she made dumb decisions. I understood her need to escape slavery but she didn't think things through. She just let her emotions get in the way of her goal. It was frustrating at times.
Overall, I was totally enthralled. I would have loved to get more history of how the enslavement happened and what Earth is like. But I think Sara Baysinger has set up a really cool world. My only question is where is the sequel??