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A review by immabehazzie
A Wilderness of Stars by Shea Ernshaw
3.0
In a world where everyone is dead or dying there is Vega, a teenage girl who knows everything about the stars and has a big secret. After her mother passed away she must leave the only home she has ever known and find a man she has only ever heard stories about. On her journey, she makes friends and enemies but can she find the man her mother told her about and complete a mission that only she can or will she be stopped?
This story was all of the place with the genre. By the time I finished it, I couldn’t tell if it was dystopian or Sci-fi. The story itself is unique and the world-building is vivid and I do think fans of both YA and adult fiction could find some appeal to this story. It had an old Western feel to it in the beginning from the towns, saloons, and down to the chase scenes that you’d find straight out of an old movie. However, it did feel repetitive after a while because all of the action relied on the main character being chased by the same group. The ending was something I wasn’t expecting. Not in a “they built up to it but I didn’t see it coming” but more so in the way, I felt after reading ‘Under The Dome’ by Stephen King, where I went “What the actual hell?”
Vega was an interesting enough main character but any development or personality, really, was lacking for every other character. Her love interest felt hollow despite the very large part he played in helping Vega. Cricket, though, is the best example. She was meant to have an impact on this story but every time she got any time on the page nothing happened to make me care for or about her. The antagonist was just plain annoying to me and I think this is on the repetitiveness of the story because the first time he appeared he was menacing and cold but by the end, I was sighing from how annoyed he made me.
After finishing ‘A Wilderness of Stars’ I can admit that this story wasn’t ‘it’ for me but I do think other people would like it.
This story was all of the place with the genre. By the time I finished it, I couldn’t tell if it was dystopian or Sci-fi. The story itself is unique and the world-building is vivid and I do think fans of both YA and adult fiction could find some appeal to this story. It had an old Western feel to it in the beginning from the towns, saloons, and down to the chase scenes that you’d find straight out of an old movie. However, it did feel repetitive after a while because all of the action relied on the main character being chased by the same group. The ending was something I wasn’t expecting. Not in a “they built up to it but I didn’t see it coming” but more so in the way, I felt after reading ‘Under The Dome’ by Stephen King, where I went “What the actual hell?”
Vega was an interesting enough main character but any development or personality, really, was lacking for every other character. Her love interest felt hollow despite the very large part he played in helping Vega. Cricket, though, is the best example. She was meant to have an impact on this story but every time she got any time on the page nothing happened to make me care for or about her. The antagonist was just plain annoying to me and I think this is on the repetitiveness of the story because the first time he appeared he was menacing and cold but by the end, I was sighing from how annoyed he made me.
After finishing ‘A Wilderness of Stars’ I can admit that this story wasn’t ‘it’ for me but I do think other people would like it.