Book #228 of 2017: A Million Worlds with You by Claudia Gray (Firebird #3) The Firebird trilogy has gotten steadily better as it’s gone along, and this third novel brings it all home nicely. As befits a series finale, the stakes are higher than ever in this book, and the parallel universe-hopping that’s always been …
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Book #197 of 2017: Ten Thousand Skies Above You by Claudia Gray (Firebird #2) This middle book in Claudia Gray’s Firebird trilogy suffers from the same problem as a lot of sequels: a somewhat clunky effort to kickstart the plot and present new stakes now that the main conflict from the previous story has been …
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Book #175 of 2017: A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray (Firebird #1) The beginning of this book is pretty weak, with a revenge quest that’s hard for readers to care about when we don’t have any emotional connection to the characters yet and a whole lot of infodumping about the technology that enables …
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