The Missing of Clairdelune

The continuation of the storyline keeps up with the first book. Such surprising twists and turns and imagination! Amazing.

3.5 ⭐️ I went into this book with high hopes and it kind of fell flat for me. I think where this book and the first book in the series lose me is in the pacing. It takes way too long to get into the plot and then a whole lot of nothing happens for 300 pages. I really enjoyed the ending but it felt thrown together and I wish more time was spent on the conclusion. At the moment I don't know if I will continue this series but I do like the characters and the world which may be enough for me to pick up the next book.

Also I can not stop thinking that parts of this book just feel like a mistborn knock off??? However, that could just be my bias since I just read that book the other month.

This was better than the first book.

I was fascinated by the “mirror visitor” quality, which is kind of a misnomer, or misinterpretation - she uses mirrors as doors, passes from mirror to mirror, she doesn't visit mirrors. In the first book it was one of the best parts of the book, in this book there was lot of other things that made me like this one better. Mainly that people weren't talking over her head so much in this book. She started taking space and speaking up and acting instead of things just happening to her.
Also, other people are getting consequences of their actions. In the first book it felt like people just did what they wanted and no-one cared about whose fault things were.

There is a lot of violence in this book, though. And some scenes that might be too much for sensitive people. like the Knight being punished - he was an evil brat, but still a child, and even though the punishment doesn't hurt, they say, it was rather icky