A Sea of Stars

1.5 stars.(I wanted to give this 3 so I wouldn't feel like such a horrible person but I couldn't. I didn't hate the book by any means, it was better than the other two, but it just didn't have enough to make me want to read it again)

I'm gonna repeat what I said in my review of The Merchant's Daughter: "But I'm seeing an annoying trend in this lady's books. Perfect main characters that have been wronged in some way, overly Christian main characters, weird creepy dude A) stalking the main girl or B) trying to take advantage of but then love interest that isn't a love interest yet saves the girl and she doesn't trust him but he's always good looking and he treats her with kindness and he's "gentle" and she starts falling for him against all the odds and they can't be together because of reasons and "God save me, I'm so attracted to him/her" and then they end up together because true love prevails."

This is actually more true now than it was then. Sophie is perfect. I mean that. Annoyingly prefect. And Gabe is stupid. Again, too perfect. No one likes perfect people and this rule applies to characters as well. I do like their story(and the story in general) better then The Merchant's Daughter or The Healer's Apprentice. It seems better written, though with many similar flaws, and it's still not that well plotted or written, esp. that horrendous romance.

"It was as if they were the only two people in the room, as if he was strumming her soul, seeing straight into her heart with his penetrating brown eyes."


Not only that, Amy, but "strumming my soul" is so sappy, it's giving me oogies. (If you've never seen Avatar: The Last Airbender, then I apologize)

"He wanted to argue that she belonged to him because he had risked his life for her, taken an arrow for her."

Now I'm not a feminist but this is taking it a bit far. "Belonged to him"? If it was "belonged with him", that'd be fine esp. considering the context of when he says this (Trust me, knowing the context doesn't make his statement any better) but's it not. And not even his reasoning makes sense. I'm sure Sophie appreciates that you saved her life, Gabe, but that doesn't make her yours. My brother saved my life but I am not now his servant and she sure as hell isn't something for you to own, like a parcel. I don't care if it's the 1300's, you don't say something like that. Esp. since that didn't seem like Gabe's personality. Like it was just thrown in for funsies or something.

Better than the first two books, but still not that great.