My father had never carved a piece of someone with his own hands. Green and brown and gray irises, afloat, like fish bobbing to the surface of a tank for food. Before I truly understood what the jars in the Weapons Hall contained, I had gone there to look at them, on shelves high above my head, glinting in the low light. And how to store it, too, in a preservative, so it wouldn’t rot. My brother-who had begun his life soft, and only later hardened into someone who would torture his own sister-had learned to cut out a person’s eye from Lazmet. With her he had some softness, but with everyone else . . . He respected her, though he respected no one else, not even his own friends. “Laz,” she would say, “let it go.” And he obeyed her, as long as she didn’t command him too often. No one else would have dared but Ylira Noavek.
My mother had called my father “Laz,” sometimes. We had held a funeral for him on the first sojourn after his passing, sent his old armor into space, because there was no body.Īnd yet my brother, Ryzek, imprisoned in the belly of this transport ship, had said, Lazmet is still alive. (note to Veronica Roth: PLEASE do not make this a trilogy! Two is fine! An unresolved political drama is perfectly okay to leave hanging.L AZMET N OAVEK, MY FATHER and former tyrant of Shotet, had been presumed dead for over ten seasons. Let me just say that I hate Isae Benesit and will never like her. The plot twists were all super effective and the hard-hitting moments were pretty intense. I was hesitant about the Lazmet death retcon, but it was done really well and added a lot to the story.
The themes were great in this, and the pacing was also great. I got my more planets wish and got some awesome visuals along the way (Ogra is my dream aesthetic) We got to see so much more through them than just through Akos and Cyra, and it was greatly appreciated.
The inclusion of Eijeh and Cisi's perspectives really added a lot to the story and the world. I had some mixed feelings about the first book, but I entirely loved this one! It was so good! Asteroids, stars, planets, the current stream space debris, ships, fragmented moons, undiscovered worlds this was a place of endless possibility and unfathomable freedom. Space was not a finite container, but that didn't mean it was empty.
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