Review: Sheltered Roots (The Agora Series Book 2 ) by Jeanne Allen

Sheltered Roots by Jeanne Allen
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Travelling The World

As Sebastian lies in his coma, Rose joins Phosopolis University and makes some new friends. At the same time her Kladi are trying to find out who attacked him. When attacks against Rose and her Kladi intensify they decide they must go on the run and end up travelling all over the world.

During the course of their travels they fight the enemy, make new friends and allies and Rose finally learns about her heritage, as well as that of the entire Phosopoi race. It turns out that their Omas has a very big fight on their hands.

Though I enjoyed this book, it wasn’t quite as engaging as the first in the series. I felt that some of the characters were created purely as plot devices and then set aside. There wasn’t enough real emotion attached to them. I also felt that the characters were being moved around a game board and there was much less chance for character development and the bonding was a bit rushed and skipped over, when I felt it would have been a lot more involved emotionally, especially with Rose’s past.

I felt that maybe the author got really excited about the plot and wanted to move them here so that could happen and there so that could happen, without taking the time to slow down a bit and work out what was happening inside the characters and their connections to each other. I understand it, but I felt it let down the book a little, when the first book really paid attention to the emotions of the characters.

I’ll probably read the next book when it comes out as the plot and world building is really interesting, and hope that the author realises that sometimes taking a bit of time away from the plot can be a good thing.

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