Even secondary characters are well-rounded, with their own histories and motivations.
Autumn’s coming-of-age is sensitively chronicled, with a wide range of experiences and events shaping her character. But on August 8, everything changes, and Autumn has to rely on all her strength to move on. In the summer after graduation, Autumn and Finny reconnect and are finally ready to be more than friends. Growing up, Autumn and Finny were like peas in a pod despite their differences: Autumn is “quirky and odd,” while Finny is “sweet and shy and everyone like him.” But in eighth grade, Autumn and Finny stop being friends due to an unexpected kiss. They drift apart and find new friends, but their friendship keeps asserting itself at parties, shared holiday gatherings and random encounters. The finely drawn characters capture readers’ attention in this debut.Īutumn and Phineas, nicknamed Finny, were born a week apart their mothers are still best friends. After twists, action, and heartbreak, the ending sets up the next in the series.
While this story unfolds, Rho pieces her way through the Trinary Axis chapter of Zodiac history that was hinted at as terrible in the first installment, finding parallels that help shape her character development. She doesn’t have much time to decide terrorist group Marad is ramping up the violence and the brutality. Making it difficult is what she has to report: nemesis Ophiuchus reaches out to her with a terrible warning, as well as an offer, and Rho doesn’t know if she should trust him. Rho-still flawed and nuanced, a delightfully conflicted reluctant leader-struggles to find her voice again after having been so thoroughly shut down. The Risers-mentioned in the first book-become a major plot point here, leading to thought-provoking dilemmas about how to handle violence coming from oppressed minorities. Furthermore, the Riser population is rising.
She also learns the reason why the armada fell apart: sabotage by Risers, those born in one House who shift to another. On a Cancrian colony on the surface of the Capricorns’ planet, Rho is haunted by both the deaths she’s seen and the ones she feels responsible for, as well as dealing with the dramatic reversal of public opinion toward her. While threats still loom after Zodiac (2014), vilified Rho must pick up the pieces.
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