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From Nommo Award finalist Kerstin Hall comes “a layered and incisive examination of power.”—Rory Power, New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls
All martyrdoms are difficult.
Elfreda Raughn will avoid pregnancy if it kills her, and one way or another, it will kill her. Though she’s able to stomach her gruesome day-to-day duties, the reality of preserving the Sisterhood of Aytrium’s magical bloodline horrifies her. She wants out, whatever the cost.
So when a shadowy faction approaches Elfreda with an offer of escape, she leaps at the opportunity. As their spy, she gains access to the highest reaches of the Sisterhood, and enters a glittering world of opulent parties, subtle deceptions, and unexpected bloodshed.
A phantasmagorical indictment of hereditary power, Star Eater takes readers deep into a perilous and uncanny world where even the most powerful women are forced to choose what sacrifices they will make, so that they might have any choice at all.
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“I wanted to like this book more than I did, but quite frankly, it was just confusing too much of the time. Too much was hinted at, or mentioned and then not explained fully/very well or simply not mentioned at all until it was suddenly relevant, and you as the reader were kind of left to flounder and try to figure things out. That and certain things were implied to have more weight and bearing on the story than they actually did, and I was let down when that happened (<spoiler>Elfreda being a spy, why having a baby is the beginning of the end - obviously that means you'll be martyred, but it's never explained at what point the martyrdoms happen (it's clearly a ways off from the baby's birth because Jaylen is 10/11), and that's a huge central theme. Elfreda's mother's early martyrdom/grandmother's rot is never explained either and it just felt like those things and others were supposed to have such importance, and then didn't. </spoiler>). I think the book needed to be longer so that everything could be explained and explored properly, because the story was good, even though it was very dark. <spoiler>A society built on ritual cannibalism/ritual rape is a new one for me.</spoiler> I'm disappointed, because I was excited for this book, but it was just totally underdeveloped.”Chloe
Created 2 months agoErin
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