Review: Aftermath by Ann Aguirre

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Aftermath (Sirantha Jax, #5)After­math by Ann Aguirre

My rat­ing: 4 of 5 stars

Leave it to Aguirre to take her hero­ine in a direc­tion that is appar­ently piss­ing off at least half of her read­ers (those who expected romance). Sir­an­tha Jax is in fine form in After­math, stay­ing strong and true to her­self through an all-​​new set of tri­als (lit­er­ally) and trou­bles. Loyal Velith stays by her side through­out, con­tin­u­ing to depict a friend­ship that goes beyond mere romance.

I don’t nor­mally mine books for quotes as I read them, but two bits stuck with me from this book. Mus­ing, Jax thinks, “… the world moves on, even when you don’t want it to, even when change feels like the end of every­thing. It never stops. That’s harsh and mag­i­cal and some­what com­fort­ing because noth­ing is immutable, how­ever much we want it to be. Moments can­not be caught like fos­sils in amber, ever-​​perfect, ever-​​beautiful. They go dark and raw, full of shad­ows, leav­ing you with the mem­o­ries. And the world moves on.”

Later, Velith says, “The heart is not a glass of water, but more like an end­lessly pump­ing spring.”

There is so much wis­dom about love and rela­tion­ships in those words that I will remem­ber this book far longer than the plot details will nec­es­sar­ily stay with me.

The plot is, of course, as can always be expected of Aguirre, good. It hangs together well. There was a lit­tle drag this time, but not much. I am eagerly await­ing the release of Endgame later this month, and will be pur­chas­ing it as soon as it’s released.



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