
30 Follower
DNF at 54% The first book was already not written all that well, but the dynamic between Tenley, Archer and Killian was interesting enough that it kept me reading to the end. Plus, there had been enough interesting plot with Tenley's family and decisions Tenley has to make for her future, that I still wanted to know how it ended. Now, with Archer dead and Killian (and Sloan) in a different sphere, we don't get any of the dynamics that made reading book 1 interesting. The dynamics in this book just didn't catch me. The book also left behind all the interesting dilemmas Tenley had to contend with in book 1 for plain war and a forbidden romance that already wasn't all that good in book 1, but seems to have become even more shallow in book 2. I really wanted to enjoy book 2, but the time between reading one chapter and the next became longer and longer, as the book bored me more and more. In the last book I wondered if the spheres were inspired by Christian ideas of afterlife, and this book starts off with making clear that no, it's not just inspired, but Troika is supposed to be Christian heaven. We got resurrection right off the bat, and then it's a lot of heavy-handed Christian references from there. I didn't enjoy the way this was done, but would have probably been okay with it, if the book had said something interesting about it. Neither in book 1, nor up until the point that I got in book 2, it had been. And at this point, I am not interested enough in any part of this book anymore to make it worth reading until the end to find out. Wouldn't recommend. There's soooo many YA books that did better what this series wanted to accomplish.
23. Aug. 2025
DNF at 54% The first book was already not written all that well, but the dynamic between Tenley, Archer and Killian was interesting enough that it kept me reading to the end. Plus, there had been enough interesting plot with Tenley's family and decisions Tenley has to make for her future, that I still wanted to know how it ended. Now, with Archer dead and Killian (and Sloan) in a different sphere, we don't get any of the dynamics that made reading book 1 interesting. The dynamics in this book just didn't catch me. The book also left behind all the interesting dilemmas Tenley had to contend with in book 1 for plain war and a forbidden romance that already wasn't all that good in book 1, but seems to have become even more shallow in book 2. I really wanted to enjoy book 2, but the time between reading one chapter and the next became longer and longer, as the book bored me more and more. In the last book I wondered if the spheres were inspired by Christian ideas of afterlife, and this book starts off with making clear that no, it's not just inspired, but Troika is supposed to be Christian heaven. We got resurrection right off the bat, and then it's a lot of heavy-handed Christian references from there. I didn't enjoy the way this was done, but would have probably been okay with it, if the book had said something interesting about it. Neither in book 1, nor up until the point that I got in book 2, it had been. And at this point, I am not interested enough in any part of this book anymore to make it worth reading until the end to find out. Wouldn't recommend. There's soooo many YA books that did better what this series wanted to accomplish.
23. Aug. 2025





