Review: Aurora Burning

Aurora Burning by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

First off, Ms. Kaufman and Mister Kristoff, HOW DARE YOU. 

I mean, that's standard operating procedure for any book by these two (especially the notorious latter, one of SFF's most rockstar writers there is), but with this book's ending, especially... HOW VERY DARE YOU.

Building on Aurora Rising and its brilliant hybridization of Alien and The Collapsing Empire, now we get to see the consequences of the conspiracy being unearthed - and hoo boy, is this book a doozy. Once again laden with a vast array of POVs from all across Aurora Squad, with a better balance of all of them this time - like, in Book 1, Zila was severely underused and got the shortest chapters by far. But now it feels like everyone has much more equal time, which only makes the final chapter - and that horrifyingly Aveyardian cliffhanger that I've been hearing Mister Kristoff troll us about on Instagram for months - hurt that much more. I really don't see how they can possibly fix this for a third book...but it's Kaufman and Kristoff. Maker's breath, of course they bloody will.

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