The Hurricane Wars by Thea Guanzon

Source: NetGalley, Thank you to the Publisher!
TL;DR: Not for me in anyway. If I wanted Star Wars I would have picked up Star Wars canon

Plot: A fanfiction of Kylo Ren and Rey but Rey is a princess and Kylo is the Emperor of the Shadow Empire and they’re forced into marriage
Characters: The book starts with an interesting cast but it slowly narrows in on our Kylo and Ray characters after 30% so not much to say there
Setting: The most interesting part! I would have enjoyed a map and some more details but I feel like this was secondary do the clear fanfiction aspect of this
Magic: It’s The Force but make it dimensional weave with some elemental attunement instead of light/dark side

Thoughts:

There are few things I like less in reading than to be bamboozled into finding out something I’m reading is a fanfiction with the serial numbers scrubbed off. For that reason, I’ll point out one or two things someone else might enjoy. But I’ll get it out of the way that I did not enjoy this, and I felt like it was incredibly obvious what the source material on this was and it completely ruined what could have been a unique and fun new debut.

The story is following two enemies who are forced together while their two sides war for control of their world. One, the Kylo Ren character who I don’t even remember the name of because he was described exactly how you would describe Adam Driver, is the heir/emperor of the Shadow Empire. Our female character is one of the last Light Seekers, and stands in opposition to the Shadow Empire.

The two have a clear connection through the text (they meet once and then they can do nothing but think about each other), and the book moves at a fast pace so if you love fast paced stories this is one to pick up. The author has some very interesting additions to the story, such as dragons that defend a somewhat neutral land the two converge on though these are small and don’t take away too much from the very clear Star Wars inspiration.

I’ve seen it said that many people enjoy seeing the source material through these types of books – for those readers this is a big recommendation. Additionally she does an interesting job with her wide cast of characters initially. After about 30% or so this becomes much more singular and focused in our main characters, however knowing the nature of fanfiction this seems to make sense so again this could work for those readers.

For me I really did not enjoy it – but I can see this being a huge hit for those that don’t mind this type of thing.

1 out of 5 Weave Weapons