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Rites of the Starling by Devney Perry
This is the sequel to "Shield of Sparrows." While this book isn't as good as its predecessor.
The chapters about Caspia were quite slow and I had to plough through them.
There are parts that are very predictable.
No delicious, drawn-out slow-burn tension. Gone is the longing, the almosts, the buildup. The payoff doesn't feel earned. The editing is very sloppy and cuts out important moments that build then vanish.
If you like the "let's get to it" books that have a good amount of action and plot moving, you might enjoy this book. I don't recommend this book and I didn't finish reading it either.
Book Rec:
Shield of Sparrows
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Shield of Sparrows is a slow-burn, high-stakes romantas…
Book Review #65 of 2026--
Shield of Sparrows by Devney Perry. Rating: 4 stars.
Read from May 23rd to 27th.
I finally gave in and read the book that it feels like EVERYONE was talking about last year. I put a hold in at the library because my expectations were pretty low and I didn't want to spend my own money on something I didn't know if I would enjoy. And then I was pleasantly surprised to find that I liked it. For most of the novel, it was sitting around a 4.25 to 4.5 star rating but then the ending did drop it down a little bit. I think the pace for most of the novel was fantastic, but then the final 75 pages or so were all action, full gas no breaks. Which I don't generally enjoy in books or movies but it also really highlighted how different most of the book was to the ending. I know we needed to get that big scene done so that our two characters could have somewhere to start the next book but it all happened so fast.
I love the characters and the world here. (A book for us mountain and forest loving girlies TBH.) But I also love the growth we got to see from Odessa. At the beginning of the novel, it doesn't even seem like she's a character who needs to grow or develop because she's living in her father's kingdom where she has been trained to be this way, but then she gets thrown into another kingdom and it's a whole other world that she has to adapt to. She quickly realizes that to survive here she's going to have to be a different person than she was back home. And I loved the training sequences if I'm being transparent. There's a reason this book is compared to Sarah J. Maas. The training was so Heir of Fire coded but in a good way. There were enough similarities to pique my interest but enough differences to make me happy. Also, I FREAKING CALLED IT ON PAGE 60 OR SOMETHING. I knew it. The whole time I knew it. And maybe it was just so freaking obvious to everyone, but each time something would pop up and I'd just point at it while waiting for the final reveal (WHICH CAME 300 PAGES LATER). Sometimes I felt like the meme of the guy with a murder board and red string on the wall. The political intrigue was good, not great, for me because it felt like it was getting a little sloppy at the end.
Overall, this was a fun read and the perfect Romantasy for someone who doesn't love Romantasy as a genre. I expect I'll get into the sequel at some point (when the library hold finally comes in I guess) and hopefully I enjoy it just as much.
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also you can't keep telling me the character feels dizzy every time they experience any strong emotion without me pointing at them and yelling "Cataplexy!" and running with it.
Okay, it's the only major complaint I have about shield of sparrows is that the love interest is a fucking asshole but that seems to be impossible to find books written where the love interest is not an unmitigated fucking asshole towards the main character but other than that it's actually well written. You know like bare minimum shit like having proper setup, foreshadowing, characters who exist outside the immediate view of the main character and don't just blip out of existence and are still doing shit off screen, Not going completely overboard with the original monsters introduced and not making up new ones every single god damn scene but instead just sticking to a few that live in the area, and I was about to complain that the giant monsters behavior doesn't make sense but lol no. That's got an explanation too and it's fucking delightful and hilarious lol. I will say we should definitely have seen more montages and just general scenes of the main character actually practicing running laps and shit, cuz that was mostly off screen, we should have gotten more info on that before the book ended. But the ending is a delight.
Also it does appear that the trans man coded main character was actually not on purpose. At least not as far as this book is concerned. Darn. I had my hopes up. Maybe that can happen in the second book? But I really don't think it was on purpose at all. It was just a strange writing choice multiple times that didn't actually have any meaning apparently. Most other people are probably not noticing at all lol.
Also I got to say I was expecting something much more magical to be going on with the two dudes at the start but I guess that was just me thinking this was going to be a different genre than it was. So the implications there was just me thinking this was a lot more magical than it is lol. I thought that was going to be like some kind of hollow ichigo and ichigo situation but nope they are genuinely just two separate dudes. All right.
