a fantasy set in space.
this book has all the typical plot points fantasy books have:
- the adventure begins moment (some kind of accident or quest request or a combination of it)
- finding the crew/team to do it with
- getting to know the team well while traveling
- lots of travel
- fighting, travel, fighting, travel, fighting....
- big final thing
- one person achieves ultimate knowledge


which isn’t a complaint about the formula of those plots.

but i didn’t think it worked that well in a sci-go book.

overall this book was good.
the writing was good.
the characters was good.
the plot was good.
the pacing good.

the book as a whole was good.

BUT it could have been better.
with pretty small changes.

for one, an editor that really worked over the constantly repeated phrases to not let some format of “caught her breath / took a breath/ lost her breath/ held her breath/ didn’t know she was holding her breath/ let out the breath she didn’t know she was holding” be repeated at least as often as the amount of pages in this book (so at least around 800 times)

also this book had a lot of similar repeated moments that could just have been cut and the book could have been at least 200-400 pages shorter and could have told the exact same story.

and again i am not saying it’s bad how it’s done but why is it necessary to keep reading similar scenes that don’t really do a huge amount for the overall plot?


what i didn’t like and didn’t understand was why this was told from a female point of view because the author really didn’t do a good job of that - at all.

let’s start with the point that a woman can actually touch parts of her own body without it being sexual in any way.
imagine that!
if your checking your body over to see if everything is okay after being in a body altering situation? that’s not something that will feels erotic!
why do men feel the need to write it into the story that it needs explaining that it’s not sexual and/or add that it’s not the time for that?
do men not understand that of a woman touches her breast that doesn’t automatically give us an orgasm?
apparently that’s a really hard concept to grasp with i just do not understand especially in books that are recently it newly published!
do better make authors and editor!

also just for a small information because it was a few pages of plot in this book: getting your period? that does not feel like you have a stomachache from eating something wrong.

it might feel like you have really bad digestion cramps in the lower parts, it might feel like your backbone is being ripped out or the muscles in the hip and lower back or stomach area are being schredded - but as that a woman confuses it with having eating something wrong and feels as if her stomach is acting funny? and asks a doctor about it?