320 pages
English language
Published 2024 by HarperCollins Publishers Limited.
At the heart of this, there's a a potential indiana jones sci-fi caper kinda thing going on. It's lost in a lot of generic space travel mega war mumbo jumbo. Would have been better to keep things smaller and focused on the main characters. I almost put it down halfway, but it juuuust changed enough in the second half.
The Stardust Grail is both simple and complex.
There is no subtlety, everything is spelled out, the world and characters are skin deep.
However, the lines between good and evil are blurred, and that is where it shines.
I consider this novel to be for a YA audience.
It was to blatant for me.
I really enjoyed Stardust Grail.
Maya is a grad student who used to work as an interstellar art thief. She gets called back to throw stars for one last job trying to track down an important artifact for her alien friend, Uncle. Along the way she makes new friends and discovers devastating truths about the universe she thought she knew everything about.
I really enjoyed the characters in this one and their interactions. They felt like the sort of chat you have with someone you work with. I also really liked the variety and diversity of the alien species portrayed in the book.
There's one section of the heist near the end of the book that felt a bit rushed and was a little harder to keep up with what was happening, though that might just have been an issue between me and the audio book.
Overall I really liked …
I really enjoyed Stardust Grail.
Maya is a grad student who used to work as an interstellar art thief. She gets called back to throw stars for one last job trying to track down an important artifact for her alien friend, Uncle. Along the way she makes new friends and discovers devastating truths about the universe she thought she knew everything about.
I really enjoyed the characters in this one and their interactions. They felt like the sort of chat you have with someone you work with. I also really liked the variety and diversity of the alien species portrayed in the book.
There's one section of the heist near the end of the book that felt a bit rushed and was a little harder to keep up with what was happening, though that might just have been an issue between me and the audio book.
Overall I really liked it, it was a fun read and one I'd be glad to recommend to friends.
