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A review by aprildiamond
The Map of Stars by Laura Ruby
5.0
And so concludes the only series so far where I thought every book was 5 stars.
This final episode was incredible. I couldn't put it down. The questions get answered, the stakes get higher, and everything (literally everything, even from the first book) gets connected in the most intense way possible.
Theoriginal timeline was WAY too real. That was the first place where I was DEVASTATED, man. It was so sad. And then the ending,,,, I cried omg. I felt everyone's pain. Ava's, Tess's, Theo's, Jaime's. And I think it makes sense. The king's secret move is castling, after all.
This is how I think everything happened:
In the original timeline, Renee is killed/targeted (I don't think it was an accident) so she sends the note and the design to Tess and Theo. They use it to go back to the Industrial Revolution, become the Morningstarrs, create the Cipher, and fix everything.
In the Cipher timeline, which is the one we've been following, the original problems are gone but there are still issues, like how Renee is still dead, Slant, Hunter, etc. However it's nowhere near as bad as the catastrophe of the original timeline. This time Jaime and Ava go back.
In the final timeline, I don't think they go all the way back?? Maybe it was just Ava because Jaime seems that he got there right from where the first book starts. Like, he's confused and out of it, still thinking it's the Cipher timeline. Theo (and probably Tess too) seems like he's about to remember everything, going through instances of deja vu. Overall, this is the final and correct timeline because those new problems have been erased, no Slant, Renee is alive, 354 W 73 is still up. So it was necessary for both the twins and Jaime to go back for EVERYTHING to be correct.
Not sure if this is correct, just how I thought everything worked.
There are so many meanings to this book, and I couldn't even begin to get into them all. But one that really hit me was when Hunter Roberts tried to blame all the problems on the Morningstarrs despite them fixing everything. Of course it wasn't their fault, they saved the world from destruction, but he didn't live that, so he would never know what could have happened and so blamed them for his personal gain. It was WAY too real.
The writing, the themes, the emotions, and most of all, the sense of hope through the chaos that you get from this book, they were all beautiful. I would give this book more stars if I could.
(side note my headcanon Ava is Janelle Monáe because, I mean, look at her. she'd be perfect wtf)
Anyway as I've said a million times this series is amazing. And I'm so sad that it's over but it's been a good run :)
This final episode was incredible. I couldn't put it down. The questions get answered, the stakes get higher, and everything (literally everything, even from the first book) gets connected in the most intense way possible.
The
This is how I think everything happened:
In the Cipher timeline, which is the one we've been following, the original problems are gone but there are still issues, like how Renee is still dead, Slant, Hunter, etc. However it's nowhere near as bad as the catastrophe of the original timeline. This time Jaime and Ava go back.
In the final timeline, I don't think they go all the way back?? Maybe it was just Ava because Jaime seems that he got there right from where the first book starts. Like, he's confused and out of it, still thinking it's the Cipher timeline. Theo (and probably Tess too) seems like he's about to remember everything, going through instances of deja vu. Overall, this is the final and correct timeline because those new problems have been erased, no Slant, Renee is alive, 354 W 73 is still up. So it was necessary for both the twins and Jaime to go back for EVERYTHING to be correct.
Not sure if this is correct, just how I thought everything worked.
There are so many meanings to this book, and I couldn't even begin to get into them all. But one that really hit me was when Hunter Roberts tried to blame all the problems on the Morningstarrs despite them fixing everything. Of course it wasn't their fault, they saved the world from destruction, but he didn't live that, so he would never know what could have happened and so blamed them for his personal gain. It was WAY too real.
The writing, the themes, the emotions, and most of all, the sense of hope through the chaos that you get from this book, they were all beautiful. I would give this book more stars if I could.
(side note my headcanon Ava is Janelle Monáe because, I mean, look at her. she'd be perfect wtf)
Anyway as I've said a million times this series is amazing. And I'm so sad that it's over but it's been a good run :)