booking_along 's review for:

Aurora Burning by Jay Kristoff, Amie Kaufman
3.0

action packed, pretty faced paced and a complete space soap opera with over the top drama, fights and characters.

i enjoy the series but i can’t say i like it overly much.
it’s one of those books that when i read it it’s okay, it’s stupidly overdone and i kind of hate how the characters behave most of the time and i find the action too over the top.... but it’s fun and mindless you know?
the kind of book you get lost in for a few hours and it’s fun for the time it lasts.

i think that i would like this series more if not most of not all of the solutions to any and all problems wouldn’t be the „and then it came to them“ kind of thing.
where everything get solved because some gets that brilliant idea right at the saving moment, or the find the key to what’s missing or the do something stupid that works out exactly as they need it...
that is not my favorite plotting device because i find it way to convenient.

also i had the cliffhangers this series does because 300 pages of this book is stuff that could be done in fewer pages and then it ends in a way that leaves everything basically at the same stand it was when the book began?


that all sounds as if i hate the book!
i don’t!

i just think that this plot idea would have worked so much better as a longer standalone book instead of a trilogy!

it’s a good book and it’s entertaining and mindless so for anyone that’s searching for that, this series has it.

but i kind of wish it would be a bit more.

that the characters would be less teenager-ish (and i know they are but i think that most of them are trained for similar situations so why do they mostly behave as if they have no clue?) and would be less led by their hormones (again i know teenagers but at the same they are trying to save their galaxy here, maybe save the hurt feelings because someone didn’t tell you who their daddy was until after the fight is over?)

after this entire ramble let me end with: i am clearly not the target audience and because of that i find a lot of faults with the books. i guess?

i will read the next book but hope that’s the last one (and krs really just a trilogy?) and it will actually finally solve and explain some things? if not i might be really mad.
or have finally managed to get a life and have better things to do than complain about a book that’s okay just not what i personally wish it was.