She’s ready to hand over the ghost ship as ransom for her sister Tori’s life, but arrives to find her home city under siege. With her crew of mages, including the love of her life Princess Meroe, Isoka returns to the empire that sent her on her deadly mission. Isoka has done the impossible–she’s captured the ghost ship Soliton. Trigger/Content Warnings: Non-Graphic Sex Tags: Fantasy | Young Adult | Family | Powers | Civil War | Empire | Politics This does not change my opinion in anyway.īook: Siege of Rage and Ruin (The Wells of Sorcery 3) by Django Wexler For that matter, this author’s YA Wells of Sorcery trilogy was an entertaining, better balanced listen, F bomb free and still girl-power-positive.Thank you to Desirae Friesen from Tor for the review copy in exchange for an honest review. For a more entertaining future dystopian epic that begins with battle bots, larger than life gals, and sharper dialogue, I recommend Jay Kristoff’s Lifelike trilogy. Random annoyance: there’s a recurring use of “yeah?” to end sentences, as in “we’ve got to win this fight, yeah?” Reminded me of Canadians ending their sentences with “eh” except nowhere near as charming.
There’s barely any character development. Underwhelming: This ended up being a mild FF romance with a fade to black HEA (again, oddly mismatched with the crass cussing). I would have enjoyed this more if the author leaned into gritty, adult sci-fi or kid friendly, Real Steel B movie pulp. The first few minutes felt like the movie Real Steel, except starring two teen girls as competing robot pilots instead of the Hugh Jackman-kid combination. The F bombs start dropping (4 in the first 10 minutes), and there are a few oddly raunchy exclamations, which play like a scratched record in this otherwise YA to kid-friendly book about a far future universe of robot gladiator gambling.
Uneven: “F me with a neutronium strap on and leave me to dry on a throne dome pulsar.” Yeah.
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