Status Updates From A Tale of Stars and Shadow ...

talyn's such a badass

“It’s not your job to die for me, not tonight. I forbid it.”
She almost laughed, but he was so serious, scowling at her through the rain. “It is my job, you just don’t seem to realise that.”

the personality jumped out!

oh, but DOES he work for them?

i like the complicated and frustrating politics happening behind the scenes, feels so real

i was sceptical but i will say the sports game as culmination of the unit's training was pretty satisfying to read

i do have to give credit where it's due: the characters who keep professing they care and want to help the poor? actually go out and do that in a crisis. characters who claim to be good at fighting? are actually that when it comes to an action scene. i worried this would be all tell no show but it actually does quite a lot of showing

somehow this book's focus became ... a sports game ... and i don't appreciate it