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A review by justinbaumann71
Scout's Honor by Lily Anderson
3.0
I did not have a great time with this one. Its a great but simple concept: killer girl scouts fight inter-dimensional monsters and its a secret society. Amazing.
However, it is really not that fun bc we get bogged down by too many elements for a YA novel to really deal with in a standalone novel. Not only do we have a large cast of characters that have varying degrees of importance we have just way too many storylines. We have the whole secret society, the lore about the monsters, the non-sighted characters vs. the sighted ones, the ethics of indoctronating these really and truly children into this secret society where they can die, the mother/daughter relationship, the familial relationship, the main and secondary antogonist, then the actual training and day to day monotany of being a lady bird scout (but the non-fighting point).
What saved this novel from being a 2 for me was the mother daughter relationship and how the trauma/ptsd was handled in this book as well as a really great final fight scene and resolution. That whole section of the book was handled very well and improved my experience of the story significantly.
However, it is really not that fun bc we get bogged down by too many elements for a YA novel to really deal with in a standalone novel. Not only do we have a large cast of characters that have varying degrees of importance we have just way too many storylines. We have the whole secret society, the lore about the monsters, the non-sighted characters vs. the sighted ones, the ethics of indoctronating these really and truly children into this secret society where they can die, the mother/daughter relationship, the familial relationship, the main and secondary antogonist, then the actual training and day to day monotany of being a lady bird scout (but the non-fighting point).
What saved this novel from being a 2 for me was the mother daughter relationship and how the trauma/ptsd was handled in this book as well as a really great final fight scene and resolution. That whole section of the book was handled very well and improved my experience of the story significantly.