"Elwin and Ro were crouched beside them, in the middle of some sort of bizarre showdown. The ogre princess held several stuffed animals with her sword pressed against their throats, while Elwin seemed to be using telekinesis to make a dozen shimmering vials hover around Ro’s head.
“Hey, Dr. Sparkles could’ve spared his snuggle buddies if he’d taken me to find Funkyhair!” Ro shouted, angling her blade to target the stuffed boobrie. “Instead, he chose to be stubborn. So now his little birdie needs to pay!”
“Harm one thread on Boo Boo,” Elwin warned, “and I’ll have glitter pouring out of your body for the next three days!”
I wanna preface this by saying that I loved Stellerlune, and I don't want to criticize the whole book. I also don't think the bad outweighed what I liked about the book. But.
Am I the only one who was just really... disappointed with the ending? And not just like, "oh, a cliffhanger, how could she do this to us"?
Nothing really happened for the first 500 pages, then there was a build up to the climax where it seems like Keefe is about to kill his mom, and then there's just this elf in a cloak? And that's it??
Shannon said this was the "turning point of the series" she was "building up to" this whole time, but if that were true she wouldn't have to say that! If the ending were actually as significant as she says it is, it should have been set up for the 8ish books that came before, but it wasn't.
Maybe it's significant, but it doesn't feel significant the way I think she intended it to. I have no problem with cliffhangers, especially from koltc, but this doesn't feel like a cliffhanger as much as the end of a chapter, if that makes sense.
It wasn't foreshadowed, Elysian isn't even named very far before this, and nothing was there to suggest this would happen.
I'm not upset this is where the plot went. But. I feel like it wasn't set up nearly enough to feel as impactful as actually is, leaving readers confused and disappointed.