Another Lazy Bibliophile 📚

I'm a little late getting this review done, but I want to give huge thanks to Netgalley and Simon & Schuster for approving me for this eGalley in exchange for my honest review. All thoughts and opinions are completely my own.

HAPPY BOOK BIRTHDAY TO SKY WITHOUT STARS!!

Immediate thoughts: WOW. THIS IS SO MUCH LESS DEPRESSING THAN I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE. WHEN DO I GET THE NEXT ONE?

Now on to the actual review: When I heard Les Mis + Space Opera, I honestly wasn't SUPER excited. Les Miserables didn't exactly give me any feelings other than depression as a teen. I've been through a huge slump lately and when I decided to pick this up I was sure that it wouldn't help at all. I WAS VERY WRONG.

So much happened in such a short span of time and I cannot begin to wrap my head around the fact that this entire book and ALL of these events really happened in less than a week. I know realistically it's more than possible, but I felt like I was reading the story of events that happened over the course of some months.

The focus on how having empathy or the lack thereof affects the world around you was so well written. They only actually mention empathy here and there, but the second they did I immediately started taking note of each characters empathy levels. Chatine, Allouette, the General and Marcellus all show the different sides of how a little bit of empathy, a lot of empathy and having no empathy at all can alter your world view.

This really was such a well-written book. I had my rough patches getting through it, because I wanted Marcellus to be his own person and Allouette was kind of boring at the beginning, but they each came into their own and the character development was so on point. I like when I can grow into my admiration for a character.

Happy Book Birthday to ONCE & FUTURE

Some legends never die — They are reborn. This time, Excalibur chooses her.