fishy27 's review for:

The Sunshine Court by Nora Sakavic

4.25

dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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It is really difficult to pivot away from a cast of characters that I was so deeply attached to from the initial trilogy, knowing they were still /around/ but not actually a prevalent part of this story. 

The most difficult part of this book is that the first third of it is going through events that we followed in previous books, except from the very dull and boring perspective of Jean, who is doing nothing but recovering from illness and pouting about it.

This book feels much more character-based as opposed to the previous trilogy, and that is a bit of a bummer for me because the characters we’re following are, in my opinion, less compelling than our previous cast. The stakes are artificially high as opposed to the life-or-death type shit that’s going on with Neil, and those self-imposed stakes are what kind of took me out of the story. 

Upon reflection, I think this book is better than my initial reaction made it out to be. I just needed to give it a chance to be different from the initial trilogy because it’s meant to be different.