Joe Kessler’s Reviews > The Stars Undying > Status Update

This is like Red Rising with none of the betrayal and bloodshed, and no, that's not exactly a compliment.

I'm not hating this, but like... there's been no real plot developments, or stakes, or challenges for over a quarter of the book now. What is anyone's goal at this point?

"I had always thought of rainstorms as opening up the sky from above, and even after years of piloting only now understood the sweep of their lateral movement, how they moved not down but across, and how they vanished into the distance without looking back. It made one feel startlingly small, to be a way-stop on that journey—startlingly irrelevant to the movement of the ocean, and of time."

Why is Alekso not interjecting more? I feel like we should be hearing way more from him in Gracia's POV chapters, now that she has the pearl.

"I loved her once, and in the absence of love, all its old belongings become excess freight."

LOL, I forgot I started reading this ebook back in October. Gonna try to finish it and the two physical books I started last year, before opening anything new.