(And probably would have been even crazier in a non-YA world…. Another character has everything taken in a way that is just heart-breaking and seemed more of a violation and torture than any scene I’ve seen or read of physical or sexual violence. One character’s encounters with it seemed like a metaphor for Alzheimer’s. The previous book mostly just spoke about mind control and mind wipes. Fan brought out the real emotions (and near-tears) as Iris went through her plan and met with various resistances.
So I figured I’m in for a light dystopian romp. (At least in terms of violent/sexual content being 99.9% absent). I can’t remember if Starswept is meant to be YA, but it sure seems that way. Sure, Iris Lei is former slave who is now part of an abolitionist movement, but the book was so much lighter than Ms. Vs, say, Panem, where it’s so far in the future it wasn’t painful to read. Both take place in a dystopian America that’s just a little too close to home. This book was supposed to be a nice, light book after having finished The Parable of the Talents and The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. Fan might have been setting up at least a trilogy if not an on-going series. The end is satisfying on its own, but it seems like Ms. From there, the plot goes off into a few twists, but in a fairly expected progression. This book picks up right where the previous one left off – Iris Lei and the rest of the abolition are trying to plan out their next steps.
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