The Stars Askew (Caeli-Amur)

I had been excitedly awaiting the release of this book since the moment I finished Unwrapped Sky. I had never before, in a lifetime of proud book-nerd-ery, become so completely enraptured by any author's creation -- I literally counted down the days until I would be able to return to Caeli-Amur -- to find out what would become of Max and Kata -- to root for the seditionists as they fought to find their way in a world that held so many threats and uncertainties, internal and external, that they had never before had to face.

The Stars Askew, though, delivers so much more than what I had been impatiently awaiting. The intricately-designed world in which Unwrapped Sky unfolds is broadened far beyond the borders of Caeli-Amur; characters show more both familiar and new continually reveal unexpected depths; and instead of the neat, concise answers that readers of Unwrapped Sky might have thought we wanted, we are ultimately left with that same sprawling, beautiful, chaotic uncertainty that kept us thinking and dreaming of Caeli-Amur as we waited for The Stars Askew to bring us home. show less