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A review by sagek
Spinning Starlight by R.C. Lewis
4.0
*I received a free digital version from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Rating: 3.5/5 stars
Spinning Starlight follows Liddi Jantzen, the only girl of the nine kids her parents had, and how she has to save her brothers.
Liddi was a great character. She didn't speak throughout the majority of the book because if she did bad things would happen, so we got her thoughts and it felt very personal, and almost made me feel close to her, in a way. It was also very interesting to see how she communicated with others, especially since it wasn't easy for her to convey questions with just a simple facial expression a lot of the time.
Because she has eight brothers, that led to a lot of secondary characters that we didn't really get insight for. Which means that while Liddi developed and changed, they may have but we wouldn't really notice because we don't know a lot about these characters. Her brothers for example, they protect Liddi and that's obvious from how they tried to help her and keep her safe, but we only ever really saw them when they were helping her, and that never lasted long so we couldn't get a good read on each brother. It didn't bother me much since we didn't see them a lot, but there was room for more fleshing-out that we didn't get.
The world-building was nice. I think more could've been done though. I like what we got to see, but what we didn't see would've helped a lot more, especially since we got the outcome but not the process. Also the facts that the setting wasn't clear. I couldn't picture much about where they were or what the clubs/houses/city looked like.
The way this story was told is probably my favourite out of everything. Everything flowed well, and I loved reading Liddi's point of view. For me, this makes up for the secondary characters and world-building pretty well, just not enough that you wouldn't notice them.
Overall, I really enjoyed this book despite the issues. I definitely recommend reading Spinning Starlight if you're interested.
Rating: 3.5/5 stars
Spinning Starlight follows Liddi Jantzen, the only girl of the nine kids her parents had, and how she has to save her brothers.
Liddi was a great character. She didn't speak throughout the majority of the book because if she did bad things would happen, so we got her thoughts and it felt very personal, and almost made me feel close to her, in a way. It was also very interesting to see how she communicated with others, especially since it wasn't easy for her to convey questions with just a simple facial expression a lot of the time.
Because she has eight brothers, that led to a lot of secondary characters that we didn't really get insight for. Which means that while Liddi developed and changed, they may have but we wouldn't really notice because we don't know a lot about these characters. Her brothers for example, they protect Liddi and that's obvious from how they tried to help her and keep her safe, but we only ever really saw them when they were helping her, and that never lasted long so we couldn't get a good read on each brother. It didn't bother me much since we didn't see them a lot, but there was room for more fleshing-out that we didn't get.
The world-building was nice. I think more could've been done though. I like what we got to see, but what we didn't see would've helped a lot more, especially since we got the outcome but not the process. Also the facts that the setting wasn't clear. I couldn't picture much about where they were or what the clubs/houses/city looked like.
The way this story was told is probably my favourite out of everything. Everything flowed well, and I loved reading Liddi's point of view. For me, this makes up for the secondary characters and world-building pretty well, just not enough that you wouldn't notice them.
Overall, I really enjoyed this book despite the issues. I definitely recommend reading Spinning Starlight if you're interested.