
Book Review: Inseparable by E.B. Roshan

Starting today, I’ll be posting book reviews for three straight weeks, because apparently September is a popular release month this year! First up, Inseparable by E.B. Roshan released yesterday and I had the opportunity to read an ARC.
(Required disclaimer that though I received a free copy to review, the following opinions are my own.)
What is Inseparable about?
War brought Radoslav and Dunya together. If she hadn’t become a refugee, and he hadn’t taken a job as an interpreter at the camp she was sent to, they never would have met. Now, they’re taking the first tentative steps toward a peaceful future for themselves and their adopted son. Settled in a fishing village far from the conflict zone, they have good reason to hope the worst of their troubles are behind them. They could not be more wrong…
Review
Inseparable is book six in Roshan’s Shards of Sevia series, and I have not read the first five, so I can’t speak to how this book fits into the larger story being told in any depth. I was still able to follow the story, but it was clear that I had been dropped into a story that started a long time ago, in a world that had been previously established, and I’m sure that many of the relationships, characters, and other details would have had greater depth had I read the rest of the series beforehand.
Because I didn’t realize at first that this was a continuation of the Shards of Sevia series, I initially expected a story that focused on characters coming out of a war and settling into life after the war. While that’s not an entirely inaccurate description of Inseparable, the context of the series makes this a story that is much more connected to the war itself than I went in expecting. This story is very much colored by the conflicts of this world and the series’ earlier books; it’s a raw, conflict-heavy story with broken characters who struggle with faith. Overall, I think it does what it does fairly well. The characters feel genuine, the world and conflicts therein play a crucial role in the story, and the world is realistically harsh for the circumstances. The writing is well-balanced for the genre, to-the-point much of the time but with vividly specific descriptions sprinkled where they’re needed. The highlight of this book, for me, were the familial relationships and themes, which have been Roshan’s consistent strengths over everything I’ve read from her.
This book wasn’t exactly what I was looking for, or a genre I normally read, so it was only a three-star read for me personally, but it was well-done and I would recommend it to those who more heavily read post-apocalyptic fiction or similar genres.
Rating: 3 stars
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