muccamukk: Creedy and Quinn reenacting a lightsaber battle. Text: "Bedtime Stories" (Reign of Fire: Stories)
Muccamukk ([personal profile] muccamukk) wrote in [personal profile] chomiji 2020-07-11 02:18 am (UTC)

I did (review here). I found it a little YA, but for me the ending didn't actually feel that sudden as the journey of the story was about the characters learning to build healthy relationships, and so ending with Mouth and Alyssa having their non-wake and Sophie finally not only putting her infatuation with Bianca behind her but understanding how she's going to build the movement to save her tentacle friends, and understanding consent, felt like what the characters had been gropingly feeling towards for the whole book, and a well-earned conclusion.

I really liked the character work with Mouth especially and exploring the effects of growing up in the kind of intentional community, which felt like the author knew a thing or two about that.

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