Well, just finished reading the first book. I took my sweet time lol. If I have to give a one sentance review I'd say that "I'd like to like it". The ending was very good, and I'm looking forward for their andventures. However all of part one and the first half of part two were spiteful.

The main characters survived everything with plot armor, they all should have died. >!When they got thrown off a multi story moving city, soft ground is a bullshit excuse, there weren't even injured. Later Kate asked the antagonist about his secret evil plans, and were just sent away, Tom got "killed". You could argue they just got lucky or "you wouldn't be reading about them if nothing extraordinary happened". But you can't even argue that a terminator just shut down, it's batteries emptied, JUST when it was about to kill Hester. And Tom was praised, he got bitch slapped, and almost died!!< I also feel like the charscter development was a little bumpy, but it's talking about scenarios that I never faced before or ever thought about, so instead of criticising it maybe I should learn from it? Still, at the end characters started dropping like flies, it was supposed to be emotinal, but because of the above mentioned reasons it didn't feel impactful. Nevertheless, I enjoyed it. The writer wrapped things up so well, that I'm looking forward of the next piece.

Long wall of text over. I was expecting some high fantasy sort, with the bbeg criteria, but I didn't know that a post-post-apocalyptic world goes this hard. While none of my negatives have any weight if you factor in the fact that this is probably a kid's book.

Shaw reminds me of Silksong...