Reviews - To Kill a Shadow

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862 reviews for:

To Kill a Shadow

Katherine Quinn

3.72 AVERAGE

monicaholm's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Absolutely loved Kiara and Jude. Great banter and just the right amount of tension in a YA book.

I did however feel like the plot within the Mist sort of fell short, but it was still enjoyable.

The pacing felt a bit off to me though I was under the impression that this was a standalone, so that’s my own fault. Knowing now that it is not a standalone the pacing makes a lot more sense to me.

3.25⭐️

jessi_readss's review against another edition

1.0

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

DNF at 46%

💜Romantasy
💜Dual PoV
💜Cursed kingdom
💜Found family
💜Forced Proximity
💜Star-crossed lovers

Summary: Kiara is recruited by Jude (the commander) to attempt to solve the puzzle behind the curse that has plagued their Kingdom for 50 years.

Thoughts:
My first DNF of 2024. It was not for me. I was so bored to the point where I started skimming chapters. It was labeled as horror but yet is more of an insta love fluffy Romantasy. And if the FMC was described as “dainty” one more time I was going to throw this book down a sewer drain.

Check out this book if:
- you love a good Romantasy with a strong FMC.
- you adore the found family trope.
- you love powerful and protective mmcs.
- you love a good mystery.

Just because this book was a one star for me, doesn’t mean it can’t be a 5 star for you!

Happy Reading besties 😊

desanticassie's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous mysterious

dphillips25's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious medium-paced

jlbooks's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

carolinevogt's review against another edition

2.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Have you ever heard "show, don't tell"? Katherine Quinn hasn't.

To Kill A Shadow had so many opportunities, so much potential, and it really just fell flat. I saw the plot twists from miles away, and nothing in the book really felt surprising or had me caring for the characters in any way. Which sucked because a lot of scenes bank on us feeling sad and heartbroken along our main character, Kiara, and I just didn't.

Quinn has crafted a world filled with gods and rich in lore, but the writing style and pacing overshadows and undermines whatever good world-building it has.

While the book does describe itself as "fast paced", I personally could not get over how weirdly the pace felt. Scenes that didn't matter seemed to be drawn out, and scenes that had a lot of potential to be very meaningful and impacting were brushed over.

Also, what the fuck was that spider-scene. I mean what the fuck. That was so unnecessary.

Takeaway: You can find better romantasy elsewhere.

Content Warnings

blr0406's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional relaxing medium-paced

Loveable characters: Yes

I absolutely loved this book. I would recommend this to anyone who likes military adventure with some romance I’m 13 and I thought it was a very good book.