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A review by hzmt
When the Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
4 stars only because I couldn't put it down, I still will be buying the sequel, and I am invested in the world.
Tldr; if you're a romantasy girlie who can't get enough of SJM, this is an absolute MUST READ. Everyone else? Don't worry too much about passing on it.
For my closed door ppl, a plot point does happen during a love scene, making it kind of hard to modify easily. I usually just skim through those so I cannot provide a spice rating.
I picked up this hefty volume entirely out of FOMO especially after hearing everyone calling it a "better Fourth Wing" and wanting something fast-paced and addictive to pull me from a reading slump. This book definitely delivered on the latter but was certainly nothing like Fourth Wing aside from dragons existing.
While this book definitely pulled me from my reading slump and was a real page turner, it was far, far from perfect and a whole host of gripes.
What I did like:
*The unique world it was set it, specifically it being a static planet with the sun on one polar end and half of the planet constantly dark/cold.
*The mythos of the gods
*The unique "folk" also inhabiting the world as well as original flora and fauna alike.
*Our stabby fmc was pretty funny.
*The characters were all pretty fun but also gave big House of Wind/Rhysand and the gang vibes. But this will probably lead to a cute found family in the next book.
*Kaan's city is basically tropical Velaris, so that's cool.
What I didn't like:
*Lack of diversity, the common folk were all fae with skin ranging from pale white to bronzy tan, including the fae that live basically in front of the sun, the closest diverse group being a tribe of "savages" that Race gets mixed up in for a metric second.
*Lack of queer, LGBTQIA+ representation entirely.
*Other than being funny sometimes, the main character's inability to trust and affinity for self sabotage was *exhausting* after a point.
*Literally every reveal I saw coming hundreds of pages before they actually happened because the foreshadowing was basically just billowing banner ANNOUNCEMENTS
*The dragons were basically horses. No mind speak, no fun dragon banter. If you replaced the dragons with horses, horse girls would come for miles for this.
*There was a big ole conversation about the special magical molars that Essui installed for Raeve that helped her out in assassinations, they didn't seem like they were single use items/wasn't expanded on really so WHY COULDN'T RAEVE UTILIZE THEM AFTER THE BEGINNING WHEN YA KNOW, SHE PROBABLY COULD HAVE USED THEM???
*Inconsistency in the telling of time, the world introduced a unique time unit but still used terms like "hours"
Tldr; if you're a romantasy girlie who can't get enough of SJM, this is an absolute MUST READ. Everyone else? Don't worry too much about passing on it.
For my closed door ppl, a plot point does happen during a love scene, making it kind of hard to modify easily. I usually just skim through those so I cannot provide a spice rating.
I picked up this hefty volume entirely out of FOMO especially after hearing everyone calling it a "better Fourth Wing" and wanting something fast-paced and addictive to pull me from a reading slump. This book definitely delivered on the latter but was certainly nothing like Fourth Wing aside from dragons existing.
While this book definitely pulled me from my reading slump and was a real page turner, it was far, far from perfect and a whole host of gripes.
What I did like:
*The unique world it was set it, specifically it being a static planet with the sun on one polar end and half of the planet constantly dark/cold.
*The mythos of the gods
*The unique "folk" also inhabiting the world as well as original flora and fauna alike.
*Our stabby fmc was pretty funny.
*The characters were all pretty fun but also gave big House of Wind/Rhysand and the gang vibes. But this will probably lead to a cute found family in the next book.
*Kaan's city is basically tropical Velaris, so that's cool.
What I didn't like:
*Lack of diversity, the common folk were all fae with skin ranging from pale white to bronzy tan, including the fae that live basically in front of the sun, the closest diverse group being a tribe of "savages" that Race gets mixed up in for a metric second.
*Lack of queer, LGBTQIA+ representation entirely.
*Other than being funny sometimes, the main character's inability to trust and affinity for self sabotage was *exhausting* after a point.
*Literally every reveal I saw coming hundreds of pages before they actually happened because the foreshadowing was basically just billowing banner ANNOUNCEMENTS
*The dragons were basically horses. No mind speak, no fun dragon banter. If you replaced the dragons with horses, horse girls would come for miles for this.
*There was a big ole conversation about the special magical molars that Essui installed for Raeve that helped her out in assassinations, they didn't seem like they were single use items/wasn't expanded on really so WHY COULDN'T RAEVE UTILIZE THEM AFTER THE BEGINNING WHEN YA KNOW, SHE PROBABLY COULD HAVE USED THEM???
*Inconsistency in the telling of time, the world introduced a unique time unit but still used terms like "hours"