Storm of Locusts

hardcover, 320 pages

Published April 23, 2019 by Gallery / Saga Press.

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4 stars (27 reviews)

2 editions

Review of 'Storm of Locusts' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

I loved the additional worldbuilding and I can't wait to read more of Maggie.

The only drawback I had is that it has been a couple years since I read Trail of Lightning. Unfortunately, Storm of Locusts requires remembering what happened in Trail of Lightning in decent chunks with vague references and no summaries. And I don't remember the details well enough after so many (waves hand at the last two) years. And the story does not quite stand well enough as a stand-alone if you don't remember Trail of Lightning details. It's a choice not to include the summaries or specific refences, but readers should know to either have an excellent recall of the earlier book or read them back-to-back.

Review of 'Storm of Locusts' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Sloppy. (I'm sorry.) Parts of it just didn't cohere, other parts felt too hard to relate to. A few too many conveniences for advancing the story, never you mind the characters or their motivations. I had the sense that there were missed deadlines, rushed editing, and don't even get me started on the lack of proofreading! Grrrr!

Roanhorse really can write, but it takes a team to make a book: we need editors to catch weaknesses, reviewers to note subject gaffes (such as: airplanes don't work that way), and, dammit, proofreaders, not just spellcheck (there are no misspelled words in "airplane hanger" or "knife sheathe", yet no way to program a computer to cringe when it sees words used that way). I may have cringed often, but I eagerly kept going and consider it time well spent: I really do love how Roanhorse writes, her dialog, how she builds tension, …

Review of 'Storm of Locusts' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Storm of Locusts : 4.25 stars:


I looved it, even when the scenes were more of a "down" moment, I wasn't bored because the characters were well written ! I think the relationship more highlighted in this book is not the romance, but the friendship, but that didn't bothered me in the slightest, I loved seeing this type of relation for Maggie^^
I will not say much, since this is a second book , but I really liked this adult fantasy, the characters and the plot are very "fresh" and interesting, I highly recommend it !

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