(I received a free copy of this book in exchange for a review).
(This review may contain spoilers).
Ideally, I’d like to give this book 3.5 stars. It was quick and easy to read, but I would have liked to see a bit more of the world generally.
I liked Zyra as a character, but I would have liked some more background on her. I liked her relationship with Mikaela, too, but I did think she showed herself to be still rather naive when it came to her interacting with her bounty.
The Amazon-like planet of just women was quite an interesting idea, especially the reasons as to why their society had developed in that way. What was also interesting was how it was made clear that, even though they saw men as more ‘bad’ than women, some of the women on the planet were still bad people.
I felt there was quite a lot of politics in this, which was good. Although things could have gone much better if the characters had been a bit more heroic, I could see where a lot of them were coming from.
I felt that the descriptions of the fighting worked really well. The book held my attention throughout and although I think it could have been a bit longer, it did work more or less the way it did. I felt that the flashbacks weren’t necessary and could have been moved to the beginning of the book.
I think I would read the next book in this series to find out what will happen to the characters. This book ended on a bit of a cliffhanger, so it would be nice to see how things go from there.
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