sassyowlreads's Reviews (910)

 Upon finishing Night Spinner, I had a pretty good idea of how I expected Sky Breaker to go but I was wrong on pretty much every plot point and I couldn’t be happier about it. For starters, the fierce Ghoa gets her own point-of-view which sent me swooning as soon as I saw it. She was such an interesting character in Night Spinner and I had a lot of questions for her. Adding the second point-of-view created a lot more depth to the story than if it had just been told from Enebish’s side and gave me two strong female characters to root for instead of just one. Ghoa grows a lot throughout Sky Breaker and her journey surprised me more than anything else.

Serik is also involved more in Sky Breaker than he was in Night Spinner and tends to be the voice of reason for Enebish while she is still reeling from the events that occurred at the end of Night Spinner. Everything would have fallen apart pretty quickly without him and he had to become the leader of this motley group of shepherds and Enebish the Destroyer.

Enebish really struggles with trusting others and paranoia for awhile so it takes some time for the En we all know and love to reemerge but once she does, there’s no standing in her way. She is willing to sacrifice all to stop the Zemyans and Sky King, even if it means accepting the help of some unlikely allies.

Because this is a duology, Sky Breaker is unsurprisingly a slower read than Night Spinner. A lot of growth and development had to happen for any kind of resolution to occur, not to mention the amount of traveling on foot. I loved the light romance throughout the book and was glad that it didn’t end up overshadowing the greater dangers that were looming.

The themes of forgiveness and redemption run strongly throughout the book and we are left with a somewhat bittersweet ending which I greatly prefer to a saccharine ending. I didn’t love Sky Breaker quite as much as Night Spinner but I still really liked it. An excellent conclusion to a phenomenal duology!

A huge thanks to Page Street YA for sending me this copy of Sky Breaker in exchange for an honest review! 

B.A. Lovejoy has blown me away again! I didn't expect to enjoy Quill and Cobweb as much as Ink and Foxglove but it was just as good, if not better. Wren and Luka are delightfully complex and compelling characters to read about and Lovejoy consistently writes intriguing side characters. I can't wait for the next book and can't recommend The Chronicles of Whynne enough!

Thanks so much to the author for an e-arc of the book in exchange for an honest review.

I didn't think it could happen but One Last Stop is even better than Red, White & Royal Blue!

August, Jane, Niko, Myla, Wes, Isaiah/Annie and everyone else are just delightful and I loved the heartwarming, found family dynamic between them all even more than the slow building of Jane and August's relationship. The characters are as diverse as it gets and I could read a book about every single one of them. I also enjoyed that New York City felt like it's own character in the story and not just a random setting chosen for no reason. The whole time I was imagining what a good movie this would make.

Natalie Naudus did an amazing job narrating this eccentric group of characters and really brought them all to life.

Thanks so much to Netgalley and Macmillan Audio for the audio arc in exchange for an honest review.

I didn't realize this was going to be more than one book so the ending left me surprised but I enjoyed this twist on Cinderella. Prince Charming was witty and well, charming; the evil stepmother is toxic and abusive; and Elya, "Cinderella," is kind despite her dark upbringing. I'm very curious about book 2!

Thanks so much to the author for the e-arc!