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"Killashandra" is much better than "Crystal Singer" (its prequel), but in a way that makes CS feel improved with new perspective. The titular character seems a lot less self-centered this go around, and a lot less bratty, and there is an unsubtle shift in personality as Killa learns what life is like after college, and then after learning that other people have feelings, too.

There's one bisexual in this book, and she's an evil tyrant, and also her sexuality is a blink and you miss it bit of dialogue.

I'm excited to begin Act 3.

I started burning out on this series midway through this book. It's not bad on its own (actually better than many of the previous Drizzt books), but after a while it just gets predictable and rote.

Enjoyable. Predictable. Straight. YA fiction for adults. There are bisexuals, for a handful of sentences, possibly even lesbians. The last chapter made me really not like the love interest (it was from his POV). I'll read the sequels.

This book was entertaining like a ghost hunting show is entertaining, which would have gotten it four stars but the ending kinda sucked. Not that it was an awful ending, just, it didn't do it for me. They explained the Monster and it just kinda killed the vibe.

Do you hate capitalism? Do you hate colonialism? Have you ever read Fanon? Do you tear out your hair whenever the White Moderate makes excuses for empire? Do you believe that revolution must be made, and that we can find solidarity in places we never expected?

This book was both painful and cathartic to read. The characters are messy, idealism abounds, but I feel like the author and I are on very similar wavelengths.

This book made me laugh and cry.

At first the book felt like a fun predictable romp, and it was, but there was plenty of originality.

Interesting enough to read (and short enough to bear) but pretty anticlimactic. I was hoping for an epic struggle of wills, but no, just suicide after suicide until the last. (That's not a spoiler, unless you consider "there's a lot of suicide" to be a spoiler.)

The real monster is adding pedophilia to an otherwise fine book for no apparent reason but shock value. This book went from 4 stars to 3, then to 2 with that. This book also suffers from "explaining the Monster", which really destroys the actual horror element.

Also, the author doesn't seem to know the difference between CO and CO2, full and new moons, or centipedes and millipedes. It seems petty to dock a star for that, but it's jarring to have things that should be well known (a new moon is dark, you can't look up and see the light of the new moon) screwed up, and it made the other discrepancies more irritating.

There was foreshadowing that kinda sorta panned out subtly, which was nice, but ultimately I didn't like this book much after the first 3/4s.

It could be that you aren't supposed to like the captain, but the prolific use of a certain e-slur coupled with anti-indigenous racism is too much. I hope he gets murdered by the monster, but I'll never know.

The plot was decent, but Calimshan is a mess of racist tropes.