Books_and_Crafts's Reviews > The Stars Are Dying

UPDATE: after sitting on this review for months every time I think about this book the more annoyed I get. When I enjoy a book I usually look back on it with fondness, and this I only look back at with growing distaste for the use of other author’s creations that worked well with a fan base and copy pasting them into a new book. Adjusting my rating to 2 stars. I have read 3 books by this author now and I will not be continuing due to lack of originality.

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I am struggling with how to rate this book and keep going back and forth between 3 and 4 stars. It had HUGE potential but ultimately… eh.

I went into this book looking to give the author a second chance after reading the first two books in her other series and not enjoying them due to the lack of original content.

I like the male characters in this series for their deliciousness 🥵 and all powerful, obsessive, consuming natures. But the female characters are either too overbearing or too dumb 😅 I need a main character that doesn’t make stupid choices. In this one, the FMC doesn’t seem to care that she’s missing memories for over 5 years of her life… glosses over a HUGE revelation and barely reacts to some major plot points. She also switches gears with her feelings more times than I can keep up with which annoyed me.

There were also issues with fluidity of scenes. How does she get back inside a locked room? The scenes tended to skip around and you were left guessing how we got from one point to another. She stabbed a man? When? I found myself re reading paragraphs to make sure I knew where we were now.

While the plot was unique and definitely intriguing we have several things pulled from other books. Basically scenes or characters that worked for other series like the hunger games and the plated prisoner series were put into this book almost word for word or descriptions were staggeringly similar.

I know it may sound like I didn’t enjoy this book at all, but I did in ways. There is a huge focus on celestial beings, true magic and cosmic energies. I loved how this concept was brought in, described and utilized throughout. I wish there was more emphasis on the magic but I get why it was slowly introduced.

I may have to think on this rating more but for now, as it stands it’s a 3.