Books The High Republic: Defy the Storm by Tessa Gratton and Justina Ireland

I get this perspective to an extent.

While I think I enjoyed this more than you did (and certainly more than Eye of Darkness), I felt like I was missing a lot of links into the plot that meant the emotional beats didn't quite hit with me in the way the authors intended. Did I miss stuff in comics that was relevant? Or just too long since reading the last YA book? Not sure.

I'm almost finished it though and do enjoy it. But do agree a bit on the perspectives, although I'd layer that by saying shifting dynamics is the issue. Groups form, break and re-form and you lose track of who is with who, what their objectives are, and what's going on to an extent.

 

And finished it just in time.

This was an ambitious book but one which realised it's ambitions. A large cast spread across multiple locations for a set of criss crossing plots.

The Path of Contradictions sounds akin to Planet X and then there is the dessication that took out a moon in the same way the Nameless feed on the Jedi. There seems to be something beyond both Nihil and Nameless. Something had to create the Nameless eggs after all.

 

I think it went a bit too hard on the plot threads with a lot not being resolved but I guess we'll see where this goes.

 

Yeah, it reads a bit differently for me, reading it so close to the next book being out.

 

I finished it last week lol.

 

I missed that entirely.

 

It's the post right above yours where I say I'm 'almost finished' four days ago. But fair enough.