ARC review: A Sky Unbroken (Earth & Sky, #3) by Megan Crewe

2 stars! **

Author: Megan Crewe

Title: A Sky Unbroken (Earth & Sky, #3)
 

The rebels have been disbanded, their plans ruined. Betrayed by those she trusted most, Skylar finds herself herded, along with a small group of Earthlings, into a living museum—a human zoo—on the Kemyates’ space station, subject to her captors’ every whim. Any move Skylar makes could result in the extinction of her people—but giving in means losing any hope of freedom.

Meanwhile, Win returns home and evades punishment by pretending to be loyal to Kemya. But he can’t bear knowing that Skylar is imprisoned or watch his fellow Kemyates swallow the Council’s lies about Earth. He must bring the truth to the Kemyate public and see the Earthlings freed—even if it means openly challenging his world’s rulers.

In this final book of the action-packed Earth & Sky trilogy, neither Skylar nor Win knows they are about to uncover an even deeper conspiracy—one that could push the future they’re fighting for completely out of reach.

The basic idea of this trilogy is amazing and I've never read something like this before. It's just the way it was written that was a bit lacking. But I would have survived the slower passages or the boring passages, if the characters were at least likeable.

But they weren't. I hated all of them. Except of Jule, Jule's cool. But the rest of them? There was a competition in my head for who's more annoying. Guess who's won. It was a tie between Skylar and Win!

It's hard to like a book when two of the main characters (both of them have their own POV) piss you off whenever they start to think/talk/try to save the world/everyone/themselves.

A Sky Unbroken continues right where The Clouded Sky ended. Right after the whole Earth EXPLODED! Just like that. Wham, bam, thank you ma'am.

Miraculously Jule saved a couple of Earthlings and most of them were Sky's close friends and family. And she didn't even say thank you or sorry for knocking you out and leaving you tied in your apartment after everything you've done for me.

Nope. She only tried to make him feel guilty for trying to save him family honor. Yeah, it's bad that he sold some of the top secret secrets but he always did it when it was too late to do something against it.

And if Win was boring before it got even worse now that he's got him own POV. But I guess he's perfect for Sky. There are both egually annoying.

Another thing that makes Sky even less likable character to me is that she jumped from Jule's bad right into Win's in a matter of week. Your whole planet exploded with almost everyone you know and you do what? Think all the time about Win and how Jule betrayed you (he didn't betray YOU! wake the hell up) and how Win wants thing to be more serious with her than she wants with him blahblahblah.

In short: Skylar is spoiled, immature, selfish and plainly annoying.

Both she and Win did try to help others but did they do it just because they wanted to really help them? I don't think so.

To be honest, I think that the main reason I didn't enjoy this trilogy is that sci-fi is just not for me. I love universe and everything about it but in more "serious" way. Like watching the Discovery channel. Sci-fi things with aliens and pseudo-aliens are so not my cup of tea.

And Sky. If there was some different main woman character I would even survive Win without complaining so much.

The ending was open. Usually I hate endings like that but in this case it seems to fit the trilogy perfectly. It ends in hopefulness, but mostly it ends in a new beginning.