Each character challenges her making the tension within the characters more powerful. Rho is an amazingly structured character, and the characters around her balance her out very well. It’s such a joy to follow her, to feel for her. She had felt defeat and has wallowed in it, finding solace in what she can, but when push comes to shove, she rises to the challenge, even through heartbreaking moments. What’s more is the fact that as a character, through all her trials she has grown. It makes her more engaging on behalf of the reader.
She loves with all her heart, but her heart is torn, and it makes her so much more interesting, and it’s what differentiates her and her predicament from the clichéd trope of a love triangle.
Now that doesn’t make her a bad character, in fact, it makes her more relatable, more human. Rho is so trapped in her culture that she can’t see beyond it. But is individuality progressive when it’s based on a conformed based on society? It’s a question Russell subtly asks as she challenges the characters, their ideals, and the society they all live in. It’s almost funny how the conformity of the 12 societies based on the zodiac also function to bring out individuality. Russell continues to tap into the human nature of individuality and unity at the same time with her storytelling and the way it functions in the world that she had built here. Published December 8, 2015, by Razorbill, Wandering Star by Romina Russell is the second in her young adult science fiction series, Zodiac, that takes astrology to a new level of cool.Ī riveting continuation to the Zodiac series that continues to explore the individuality and unity brought on by the cosmos that make the Zodiac. Now Rho must decide whether to trust the man who destroyed her home and name, of face a threat much larger than Ochus. Ochus gives her insight into the Marad, a terrorist group of unbalanced persons, those constantly shifting between houses, and their plans. Unfortunately, Ochus has other plans for her. Stripped of her titles, disgraced, Rho is ready to set her sights on working quietly at the Cancrian refugee camp on House Capricorn.
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