by Lui Petri

YA Science Fiction, Independently Published in 2025, 548 Pages

What I Didn’t Like:

Dialogue is stilted and unnatural. This makes it hard to connect to characters or to stay focused on the story.
Repetition. Ideas, names, phrases, and words are all repeated. It’s likely done to make sure the reader doesn’t miss anything but, instead, it makes the reader lose interest quickly because you’ve already heard this.
Grammatical errors. Sometimes a name is typed wrong, some instances of words or entire sentences being repeated seemingly by accident. These errors do distract and pull you from the book.

Fight scenes are descriptive. They give detailed steps that make it easy to picture.
There’s a theme here of unity and teamwork that I liked.
The characters feel like they should: real people who became bigger and more important during a war. It makes them a bit more relatable.
The cover art is beautiful! This doesn’t affect our rating, but it’s worth mentioning.

If you like big themes, big casts, and aren’t overly sensitive to repetition or grammatical errors this might be one you’d like.

Unfortunately, the poor editing and errors that distracted us as readers have to be taken into consideration and make this one problematic.