It’s very important to me because I think young women are portrayed a lot as being petty and shallow in pop culture. The book is so centered on not just Cyra but on Akos’ sister, Cisi, and there are all these very different young women. But on a bigger note, one of the biggest ideas I tried to tackle is what young women do with power.
A substantial portion of The Fates Divide takes place on that planet, so we get to see how the shadow planet lives. One of the most exciting parts of it was writing about Ogra, which was introduced in the first book as this shadow planet - it’s mysterious, no one has met Ograns, they don’t know how they live or what their world looks like. There’s all these planets in this solar system and in the first book we really only see one. This two part series, certainly delivered on shock value, with the storyline keeping you in check, turning things on its head, every time you think you know exactly what's going to happen!! Surfice to say, I thoroughly enjoyed this one!! It's an epic tale of love and sacrifice in the back drop of an interstellar showdown.What kind of themes are you exploring this follow-up, both continuations and new ones? I was constantly skipping to the glossary at the back until I got the hang of it. I think the thing that made it worse was the fact, the names themselves were so farfetched from any names we're use to and the tribes/people and learning about the history of the planets, I found it increasingly confusing. Of course with a new book there is a lot of story telling and back story to proceed with, but it felt obtuse at times. The one thing I struggled with at the beginning was the information dump and names. This was the first time I ventured into anything SCI-FI related and I felt like it was a good stepping stone into the genre, heavily hyped on space exploration and travel but at it's core centres an enemies to friends story in the midst of the fight of two nations over a single planet.
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