Moonfall

Overall Rating: 4/5

I went into this with a relatively neutral sort of mindset, as the first book was really "just ok" for me when I first read it.

And in some form, Moonfall is also "just ok" for me. I was hoping that to some degree it would be better or would somehow boost Lightfall up a little bit more in my eyes... but sadly this wasn't the case. There is still plenty of potential in these pages, and the story is well-written for the most part... however a lot of the issues that were presented in book one are still quite prevalent ... the characters still feel rather flat, there is still the issue of major (and unnecessary) infodumps and the POV is still somewhat of an oddball and could be better off told in a different POV.

I have a bit of a personal issue as well to the way that this book is formatted... the lack of chapters and the fact that there are no distinct page breaks between point of views... not to mention some of this does go on for REALLY long paragraphs... made it a tiny bit hard for me to actually focus while having to decipher that much info all at once.

However, while there are quite a few issues that made me still not enjoy this book as much I normally would for something of this genre... allow me to brag again about the world that Ed Crocker has set up. THIS is perhaps the strongest bragging point about this series as a whole, because the lore... and the history of this world from the hints that are giving just make me want to know more about the universe and how things came to be... I want to know what led up to how this world is right now, and why humans have just seemed to completely vanish....and I also want to know just how the government works and runs.

Was this the story for me? Perhaps not in the state that it stands. I'm sure that it has a crowd that is ready to shower it in adoration and undying love. Would I read the next one? Probably, if anything to just know more about the fascinating world that lies within these pages... but this is nothing impressive to me. This was 3 stars but gets a bump to 4 stars purely because of how much I adored the world and the amazing amount of detail that has been poured into it.

Special thanks go to Sara La Cotti at St. Martin's Press for sending me an invitation to read this in advanced.