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

could it be that talyn's beginning to see through her family's utopia? i hope that's the storyline at least bc there's nothing more boring than "the dumnorix are perfect our country is perfect and this other country sucks in every way compared to our perfection"

i like andres, he seems like a good egg

i can see why the author did this particular thing and i'm not saying it won't be interesting in the long run, but for now she effectively turned talyn into a smurfette character which i do not like one bit

oh my gosh does he have anime hair, is this happening

the team-building! oh i am going to like this book

the title makes sense now!

interesting setup: check

lisa cassidy sure loves the past perfect tense, is what i've noticed