Tami Veldura's Reviews > Sedition

Sedition is the second in the Demoted series and I have not read the first book. Despite my jump, I was not lost or confused with characters or plot. There was a bit of a backstory dump in the first chapter which was thick, but critical to my understanding of the character histories. That backstory could have been smoothed.

Sedition's voice drifts from distant overview to very intense close third and back again. I've never been fond of distant voices and I don't think Sedition gains anything from the review/telling moments. It does help skip time along, but it kicked me out of the story a few times when things could have been more engrossing.

That being said, the moments of close third were stunning. I love how strong the visuals were and I often got lost in the story in these scenes.

I finished Sedition in one sitting. The plot is compelling and the characters are sharp. I wanted to see more of the political jockeying that they played, the details of deception are always interesting to me and much of them were downplayed or skimmed over.

The actual details of the research in question (what, specifically, they were researching, how they went about it, what kind of results they were seeing, etc.etc.) were missing entirely. I may be an odd one out, reading medical science journals is a past-time for me, but even a glimpse into this very important piece of the plot would have been nice.

The concept of Free/Demoted is an interesting one and I want to go back to book one on the change it details this process a bit more completely. That said, I will pick up book three if it comes my way because the slave/hurt/comfort trope gets me every time.