Blood of a Thousand Stars (Empress of a Thousand Skies, #2)

by Rhoda Belleza

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Blood of a Thousand Stars is the second and final book in the Empress of a Thousand Skies duology. It cannot be read as a stand-alone, and as such, this review will contain spoilers for book one. However, there will be no spoilers for this book.

Have you ever read a book that had all the elements you love in a story, and yet, for some reason you can't quite nail down, it just doesn't blow you away like it should? That. I WANTED to love this story, I mean it is young adult sci-fi with a slight romantic aspect, which is something that excites me lately. I just ... liked it OK. Maybe it had been too long since I read book one, and it took me too long to get back into the story, to figure out the terminology and characters again. Maybe I was just in a bad mood when I picked it up. I don't know.

With all that said ... I almost don't want to write any more than this. I don't want you to NOT read it because I couldn't get into it. The story is solid if predictable, the universe is complex and the societies are beautifully complex and diverse. The writing is beautiful, and the story wraps up in such a way that you are left pretty satisfied for the most part. I disagree with the ending, but that is more on me than anything else. 

Basically, I want you to go read this and come back and tell me why I am wrong. :-)