Chaotic, lengthy, and full of hope and guts (both figurative and literal), Morning Star was fan-freaking-tastic. The story moved so quickly and was filled with so many twists and turns - even the twists had twists! - that instead of peering to see how many more pages were left, I was doing my best to ignore the steadily dwindling number of pages left or not even noticing, so immersed was I in the plot. 
 And the characters! Even newcomers like Holiday and Sefi became fully fleshed, complex creatures while old favorites like Sevro, Victra, Ragnar, and the rest of the Howlers further endeared themselves, albeit not without a good measure of bawdiness and crudity, as expected. I personally add Mustang to the list because even though she can come across as a perfect character, she is too complex and interesting to be a Mary Sue. Enemies-turned-friends-turned-enemies resolve tensions. And there are deaths to be had. SO MANY DEATHS. 
 The only reason why this book didn't get the full five stars from me was Brown engaged in one of my most abhorred literary pet peeves: the fragment. I am not exaggerating when I say that a good tenth of book is fragmented, grammatically incorrect sentences. I get that using those short, stilted, non-sentence sentences can be utilized to control the pace and atmosphere, as well as emphasize certain actions or pieces of the narrative, but it is freaking annoying when this tool is overused. In abundance. To the point where the reader wants to throw up their hands in frustration. But doesn't want to flip the book out of their lap. Get my drift? Brown must be allergic to commas or something. SO IRRITATING. Authors, please do not do this!!!! 
 Oh and now that I think about it, the editing was pretty sloppy too. One, for not cutting down on the fragmentation; and two, for not catching some pretty simple errors, like missing articles, leaving in unneeded articles, or awkward phrases. That's another thing about fragmentation: there were so many instances where I had to re-read a sentence because a noun that is the same as its verb form kept tricking me into I thinking I was reading a proper sentence. 
 So editing and writing style were meh. But the story and characters were excellent! I do wish we had seen more of the "endings" of other characters, but it seems as though Brown is already carving (haha) out a new trilogy set in the post-Morning Star world? Let's hope so.