Name: Story Eater's review of Shatter the Suns by Caitlin Sangster
Item: Shatter the Suns
Rating: 3
Author: Story Eater

Caitlin Sangster

Sev must decode her mother’s last words to find the cure to Sleeping Sickness before her enemies find it first in this stunning sequel to Last Star Burning, which #1 New York Times bestselling author Aprilynne Pike calls “a rich and timely tale.” No one is safe, not with a horrifying new strain of Sleeping Sickness tearing through the population. After fleeing the City with her friends, Sev has one goal: to find the cure her mother developed and put an end to the epidemic once and for all. But decoding her mother’s last words—to seek out “Port North”—is easier said than done. Nobody she talks to has heard of Port North, and with only Tai-ge and June on her side, Sev fears Dr. Yang will find the cure first, and that he’ll use it to start a new world order under his rule. With no leads, Sev is running out of options—until she discovers someone hiding in the cargo hold of her heli plane. Someone she thought was dead. Someone with maps that could point the way to Port North, if only she could read them. Unfortunately, the one person Sev never wants to see again might be the one person who can help her find the cure.

Shatter the Suns

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Story Eater

I stumbled upon Shatter the Suns while perusing NetGalley, not realizing that it was a sequel, so I moseyed on over to the local library and checked out Last Star Burning (Spoiler: it was awesome). 

While I flew through the first book, with no regard to the already sleep-deprived state I was in, its sequel seems to drag on at a snail’s pace; and I just could not keep my concentration long enough to finish more than 20 or so pages at one time. 

What made the preceding novel in the series so engrossing for me was the dialogue among all of the characters. Every page had a conversation that spoke to relationships and family, forgiveness and distrust, love and betrayal. Contrarily, Shatter the Suns was mostly internal reflection and analysis through Sev’s very confused point of view. Any plot propulsion was missing until 65% of the way through the narrative, and though I stayed with it because I felt obligated to read the complete ARC before I give feedback, I don’t know for sure if readers picking it up after its release will be patient enough to stick it out. 

That being written, because Sangster has given readers not one but two novels in the SciFi genre for young adults devoid of foul language and a profuse number unseemly sexual encounters, this series is ideal for advanced readers in the tweens or younger teens that need something rich in vocabulary and plot but less mature in content or older teens or younger twenty somethings who don't feel like reading any of that, either.

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