A Gathering of Shadows
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I KNEW it wasn't a good idea to read this so far away from the sequel release but I did it anyway.
I have so many regrets.
Nine of them, to be precise.
One for each month I still have to wait before reading A CONJURING OF LIGHT.
melts into a puddle of want
I loved this book so much!😍 I was happy seeing the amazing characters again and the story was just mind-blowing! And that cliffhanger omg... I'm so glad I can straight jump into ACOL now!😱
Just as awesome as book 1 but ends with the worst kind of cliffhanger. I'm glad that I don't have to wait as long as others for the 3rd one!
can we stop making these books end with rhy and kell in a lot of pain?
in short: i love everyone, kell is a Dad Friend???, i need to hug rhy, alucard needs to hug rhy, i'd now offer money to have lila punch me in the face and holland better be a fucking fighter or i'm going to riot.
i'm suddenly even more glad i'd already ordered and received acol before even starting this agos.
At the start of this book, I had an uneasy feeling that it wouldn't live up to the first. It took me a while to get back into the world and the characters, but when I did, I felt the exact same way I did when reading A Darker Shade of Magic. This is the kind of fantasy novel I want to read more of.
It was quite an exciting ride with an especially cliffhanger ending. I loved how the characters intertwined one another and the banter between them all seemed very genuine.
4.5 Stars
When I finally finished this book, I then proceeded to internally scream nope in my head repeatedly. I knew we were in for a crazy ride at the end of the book, but I was not expecting it to be anything as extreme or unexpected as it actually was. I was not at all prepared to read those last few chapters.
For me this book started off really slow, it was not until right before the tournament began that I really connected with the plot. That being said this was still an amazing and strong sequel. I'm still amazed every time I finish another Victoria Schwab book. She has slowly become one of my favorite authors (even if I have only read four of her books).
February is so long away I have no idea how I'm going to patiently wait to get my hands on A Conjuring of Light. It is going to be a long wait. This would have been a five star book if it were not for the slower start.
DNF very freaking fast, after 15%.
Miss Schwab, you writing a female character who can go around murdering and even getting praised and rewarded for it doesn't make her a “strong female character”, it makes her a sociopath. Constantly almost being raped and murdering the guy in return is still a cheap thing and bad writing, but when SHE is stealing from someone, he runs after her, she murders him and she gets taken up on a ship as the new perfect little best friendo of the captain who was the employer of the guy, I just can't help calling this a piece of shit, dumb book. You can write imperfect heroes. Hell, even bad ones. But you can't make them evil, then expect everyone to think they are awesome total little babes who you should love.
We should let Lila run around, stab random guys in the kidney, we will find some excuse why she did a great thing, because special snowflakes can do no bad ever.
Screw this idiotic book.
Oh, Victoria... Why do you do these things to my feelings?! My favorite thing about this book is how UNPREDICTABLE it was. At certain points I had no idea what direction the story was going in, and I liked that a LOT! I find so many stories that are predictable from the very beginning, or have too much foreshadowing. And while AGOS did have foreshadowing, it was the perfect amount. I loved the character development of Lila especially, and I absolutely love Alucard! I need more of him in the third book! Also needs more hot kisses between Kell and Lila, but that's just me.
I enjoyed it, but it was quite slow and nothing really happened until the last few pages and then it ended... Definitely looking forward to the next one though! I really liked Lila's character “development”.
again , v.e Schwab has done it again !!!!!
i cried, laughed, cried , cried , cried (for eterninty) kell and rhy are brotp material . the ending . nope , nuh uh , nada , nil ,zero not okay with it. it just was like oh , i finished the book , i need moreee .
a
nd
rhy
and alucard
can we pls just give them more love ,
i love rhy so much my heart hearts , ( rhy and kell's probably do too )
the essen tasch ?
elements ?
games?
count me in people !!! the suspense and romanctics and characters and styles it swept me away like wave crashing into me ( with feels and the odd evil “ you shall be changed by the book “ thing you know ?)
i got to know lots more about LIla or Dealilah or just bae . shes the best pirate ever ( but jack sparrow okay , i have a pirate anda specific pirates of the carribbean thing ok .)
the magic , the maheym , moreish ness and the end .
alucard emery is a pirate and privateer and loves rhy ( just like myslef) couldnt love him more to be honest he ticks all my piratey boxes .
so to sum up , i cried , died , and sighed and again died .
oh ! and please just read it , you have my word it will blow your brains . just like mine.
all the love ,
bookishwolf x
I loved this. Can't wait for the third book in the series. Epic, cinematic storytelling, fantastic characters. (Although some oddly named - I mean - Alucard? Really?)
That's a minor niggle however. Great stuff.
Original de: El Extraño Gato del Cuento
El año pasado no podía callarme sobre A Darker Shade of Magic, literalmente incluía el libro en cualquier conversación. Parece exageración, pero con decirte que en una entrevista de trabajo que tuve hace poco fue de lo único que hable, quizá no logre conseguir el trabajo, pero si logre que la persona que la persona que me entrevistaba terminará con ganas de leer el libro. O sea, en cierta forma gane :D
A Gathering of Shadows ha sido un libro que me ha hecho entender que V.E. Schwab es la escritora por la que alegremente salgo de mi zona de comfort. Porque te digo, el libro es laargo y de ritmo pausado, además que hay más historia que diálogo, y muchas veces he dejado de leer libros tan solo porque tenían una de esas características (Ejem.: Uprooted), entonces lógicamente estarás pensando que se me hizo imposible leer el libro. Para nada, AME cada detalle y párrafo largo.
A Gathering of Shadows ha sido frustrantemente hermoso.
Victoria Schwab dijo una vez en Twitter que si lo que buscabas era una historia bonita y romántica, sus libros no son los que buscas. Y, en cierta parte tiene razón, aun así se las arregla para poner sutiles rastros de romance, pero son tan chiquitos y crueles. O sea, tenemos a Delilah Bard como protagonista, que como dije es mi idola, ella es simplemente todo lo que quiero en un personaje, no exagero al decir TODO. Es muy lógica en sus acciones, moralmente hace lo que le conviene y su necesidad de aventura supera cualquier otra emoción que pueda tener. Pero cuando vez su sutilisimo lado sentimental, es imposible que no se encoja un poco el corazón de dolor.
Y, si lo combinas con la adorabilidad de Kell y Rhy... es perfección.
ALLUCARD EMERY
OH.EM.GEE.
Tiene un gato! ¿como no lo voy a amar? Un gato que Lilah casi calcina, pobre gato jaja.
La historia que Alucard trae en libro, es una que no me esperaba para nada. Tengo de gritar que cosa es jajaja lastima que sea el MEGA spoiler y no quiero arruinarte la lectura para cuando lo leas.
A GATHERING OF SHADOWS
Y con ese final... Victoria Schwab es cruel, la muy malvada lo sabe y esta orgullosa. No se como diablos voy a sobrevivir hasta el tercero y final. FINAL D: Me encantaría que se concretara lo de la serie de TV, soy muy mala para imaginar actores como personajes de libros, sobre todo porque siempre ignoro y olvido lo que el escritor describe ja, pero por alguna razón veo a Oscar Isaac (The Force Awakens) como Alucard.
Si no tenias muy claro si empezar esta serie o no... HAZLO.
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