We Free the Stars
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Ratings24
Average rating4
The hotly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestelling We Hunt the Flame. After the battle on Sharr, Zafira and Nasir return to a ghostly Sultan’s Keep, low on resources and allies alike. The dark forest has fallen, but the kingdom teems with fear of the Lion of the Night’s return. As Nasir struggles to master the dark power in his blood, Zafira struggles against a very different darkness festering through her bond with the Jawarat. We Free the Stars is the breathtaking second book in the Sands of Arawiya duology, by the masterful Hafsah Faizal.
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2 primary booksSands of Arawiya is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2019 with contributions by Hafsah Faizal.
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Glad this was a duology. Audio was well done, but ran it at 1.4 speed for slow talking and pretty glacial pacing. In this book the zumra works to bring magic back but really it's a showcase for the slow burn of the Zafira/Nasir romance. I wasn't heavily invested in any characters in this set but I appreciated the world building and storytelling and fantasy readers who are good with slow moving stories will be all over them.
2.75* rounded up.. i just couldnt connect to these characters and the romance was a huge miss for me
Boek één graag gelezen en boek twee begon op hetzelfde elan, maar mijn interesse nam snel af. Het was veel te lang, te repetitief, warrig en over het algemeen ook gewoon saai. Ik voelde me totaal niet emotioneel betrokken met de personages, en gebeurtenissen die duidelijk een emotie teweeg moesten brengen deden dat niet.
Ik kan niet zeggen of het aan het boek lag of aan mij, maar feit is wel dat ik me serieus door dit boek heb moeten sleuren, dat ik meermaals heb zitten zuchten en ogenrollen met de overdreven melodrama en dat het me weinig kon schelen hoe het verhaal zou eindigen.
Blij dat ik deze duologie van mijn lijst kan schrappen, maar lang zal ik me hem helaas niet herinneren.
4.25 rounded down; I will be honest I forgot what happened so it took some time to get back into it but enjoyed the second book! I think I liked the first book a little more, but I'm glad with how it ended.
