![]() ![]() Going into part two, I felt like I had unknowingly picked up a different book entirely… We skip over the later years of the Academy training completely, and are thrown into a situation where the Empire is suddenly wrapped up in a full on war-situation. Or perhaps that isn’t the right way to describe it… You see: it’s not a gradual decline, but more of an unexpected sinkhole opening up and swallowing the book whole. It reads like a debut, but a good one at that, and I would have given it 4 star probably. It’s a little grittier and darker than you expect your typical YA novel to be, and I appreciate the author taking that risk.Īll in all, I quite enjoyed my time with part 1. ![]() The plot is a little predictable (view spoiler). ![]() We follow Rin as she participates in the trials to be entered into the academy, and meets her fellow students along the way. She is ambitious to a fault, and although that make her a realistic character in some sense, it also makes her quite the unlikable protagonist at times. ![]() She has a clear goal in mind, and is willing to go to great lengths to attain that. She is a bit of a Mary Sue, but she is strong willed, and genuinely comes across as intelligent, which I very much liked. We meet our protagonist Rin: an orphaned, peasant girl from the impoverished Rooster province, who dreams of attending the Empires elitist military academy. ![]()
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