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A Sky Beyond the Storm by Sabaa Tahir

68 reviews

queermothman's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Sabaa when I catch you!!

This book does its job, but I do think it's the weakest in the series.

Helene gets NOTHING are you KIDDING ME?? what was the point in making her suffer so much???? She winds up alone while Laia and Elias just get off free???? Yeah Darin dies, but Mirra gets brought back conveniently and Laia is just fine with that.

Keris is one of the most chilling, well written female villains I've ever read, and you END HER STORY LIKE THIS????? HUH???

So, it could have been better. I honestly think this series could have been expanded into 5 installments. (And also written as an adult series.)

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cornyylynn's review against another edition

3.75

dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

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brophayy's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Apparently you can give books more than 5 stars on StoryGraph so I did

Crying over my paperwork at my desk at work rn. I'm going to start Heir as soon as I get home

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tired_cicada's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

If I could give this book more stars I would!

This series deserves every acclaim! It is truly a literary masterpiece that I don’t think will ever be topped and it not being more popular is a CRIME!!!

Everything is stunning, from the world building, to the characters, to that stakes, all the way down to very prose on the page! Simple amazing!

I want to say more but I am still so fresh of reading it and nothing I could say would to it justice! It is an experience I wish on everyone!

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brynn_books's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Ngl I'm kind of glad to be done with these just so I can finally move on to something else. They weren't bad. I love the writing and the story. I was just kind of bored at times?

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banannatoast's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous emotional tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

There are a number of things I don’t love about this book, but this deep into a series I’m so attached that I still quite enjoyed myself.

The writing in this is great. The language is so emphatic and evocative. It borders on pretentious occasionally but I’d be lying if I said that wasn’t exactly the type of shit I like. Admittedly it felt a little heavy handed at times with all the flowery talk about how the villains are just like us, since it was their traumatic childhoods that made them the way they are, blah blah blah. Like, okay, but some people are traumatized and still manage not to commit genocide so forgive me if I’m not really vibing with the forgiveness motif.

My biggest pet peeve in this book is the resolution. After all the build up and the (great) fight scenes and the loss, the resolution just being

Laia having a heart-to-heart with the Nightbringer

?!?!? Are you kidding? Four whole books for that corny shit?

On the other hand, each of the main characters individual arc is quite satisfying. I think all three have great development, and I like who they end up being in the end. The side characters feel a little underdeveloped sometimes, which might be a good thing considering

they kept getting brutally murdered

, but perhaps some of the cast wasn’t really needed in the first place if they were just going to be props for Helene’s good guy arc, idk.

Anyway this was definitely the last book in a series. I dunno, there’s something that feels unsatisfying about it, but it does conclude what it needs to. It’s just like the happy ever after just happened without being earned. And don’t try to tell me that it was earned just cause everyone suffered. That’s not how that works. Like the happy ending wasn’t brought about by the autonomous choices of the characters or something, it’s weird. I had a good time in the middle part I think

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erwikka's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I’m usually disappointed by finales but that is not the case for this one. This book utterly destroyed me and I craved every second of it. I simply adored it! The conclusion we got felt well earned and devastating. I personally think the final perfectly summed up the series. I think the stakes felt high enough which I sometimes think endings lack. All I know is this series will forever sit in my feelings and I am excited to get into the follow up series.

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