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    Ruin of Stars: Mask of Shadows, Book 2
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    Ruin of Stars: Mask of Shadows, Book 2

    Written by Linsey Miller

    Narrated by Deryn Edwards

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    As Opal, Sal finally has the power, prestige, and, most importantly, the ability to hunt the lords who killed their family. But Sal has to figure out who the culprits are before putting them down—which means trying to ignore the fact that Elise is being kept a virtual prisoner and that the queen may have ulterior motives.

    And the tales coming out of north are baffling. Talk of dark spirits, missing children, and magic abound. As Sal heads north toward their ruined homeland and the lords who destroyed everything, they learn secrets and truths that can't be ignored.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateAug 1, 2018
    ISBN9781974903849
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    Ruin of Stars: Mask of Shadows, Book 2
    Author

    Linsey Miller

    A wayward biologist from Arkansas, Linsey previously worked as a crime lab intern, neuroscience lab assistant, and pharmacy technician. She can be found writing about science and magic anywhere there’s coffee. She is the author of the Mask of Shadows duology, Belle Revolte, and What We Devour. Visit her online at linseymiller.com.

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      This book has far too many info-dump dialogue sequences, which are often clumsily handled, and suffers from trying to stuff a lot of backstory and villainry into something that is already plenty sketched out and villainous. I don't know why I keep trying to finish reading it, since I don't actually like reading it.I enjoyed the violence of the first book in the set, partly the way it was used to explore reactions to trauma, and partly because sometimes it's a bit cathartic. Here, we have the violence again, and exploration of trauma and a rich setting, but as the world expands beyond the competition to become one of the Queen's top assassins, a lot of stuff is thrown into the story to justify the anger and violence. There is just so much, and I really felt that it could be toned down without losing anything.What I really struggled with and found the most frustrating is that the villains are perfectly awful and murderous, but even though this series features a nonbinary/fluid protagonist, the villains also have to be raging bigots. Not just gender essentialist but misogynistic, too. It wasn't fun to keep reading about the misgendering or the hammering away at "the villains are just sooooo evil, they're racist and homophobic and misogynist and they probably kick puppies, too". I really, really wish the bigotry could have been maintained at the level of the previous book: most people mean well but nonbinary/gender fluidity isn't common in this universe and so they mess up, and the cruel people don't care, but the bigotry isn't the defining characteristic of the villains. Why can't some of the villains be gender inclusive and still villainous?There are elements that kept me reading, even after I kept telling myself I should quit out of frustration, but I'm not entirely certain what they were, or if I can articulate them. I suppose I like the adventure aspect and I do like Sal and eir dark humor. But the book is just so unrelentingly ugly I can't possibly recommend it as a great book with a nonbinary pov because it wasn't fun to indulge in the revenge and intrigue plot or the spy and assassin things when constantly getting confronted by the ugliness.(Sometimes it felt strongly as though that pov were distinctly not from an ownvoices writer, but I don't know that for sure. This sort of relentless negativity seems to be common in fiction about minorities, even while trying to show how that negativity is harmful. It's just not good.)If you've read Mask of Shadows and want to know how Sal's story continues...make it up for yourself and skip this one. As much as I wanted it to be better, that big infodump/villain flaw ruin the whole thing.