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adelle_bookworm's review against another edition
5.0
Mám jen jednu výhradu...
Bylo tam málo Orena! ♥
Ale ten konec, to byla pecka.
Bylo tam málo Orena! ♥
Ale ten konec, to byla pecka.
emasvingerova's review against another edition
4.0
Bylo to místy nudné ale asi nastejno jako v prvním díle. Dávám 4 hvězďule protože to bylo dobré ale na pět to u mě nemá.
Btw konečně to taky začalo jiskřit mezi Lindou a Orenem! Jůůů jsem tak šťastná ^_^ Nejlepší zpráva dne ale je, že mi přijdou z buxu knížky!! Série Matched aneb Dokonalý pár :3
P.S. Vím že to sem nepatří, ale mají tam slevy! 1 díl byl za 99,- kč ^_^
Btw konečně to taky začalo jiskřit mezi Lindou a Orenem! Jůůů jsem tak šťastná ^_^ Nejlepší zpráva dne ale je, že mi přijdou z buxu knížky!! Série Matched aneb Dokonalý pár :3
P.S. Vím že to sem nepatří, ale mají tam slevy! 1 díl byl za 99,- kč ^_^
aradhnak's review against another edition
4.0
intense. it took me a while because I kept putting off actually reading? but once I sat down with the book, I couldn't put it down. cannot wait to get my hands on book 3.
(Full review will be up on my book blog soon.)
(Full review will be up on my book blog soon.)
starryoatmilk's review against another edition
4.0
Oh. My. God. THIS BOOK IS SO GOOD! At first I was kind of bored, but like ALL FANTASTIC BOOKS after the first couple of chapters I couldn't put it down. The whole Prometheus thing flew right over my head (I had to read that part a couple of times to understand what happened). I can't wait until I get to read the third book.
emilywoodal's review against another edition
3.0
So, yea....this one got another 3 star from me. It was only going to be a 2 (maybe even a 1) but it got really good in the last 150-200 pages. So I would say the 3 star is warranted.
I was incredibly bored up until those last 200 pages and I swear I was dozing off at different times of the book. I don’t know what it is...it seems like there was too much talking and too much inner monologue than there was action or excitement.
After leaving the iron wood, Lark and Tansy traversed through the world looking for Lark’s brother. There was some this, there was some that (nothing worth mentioning unfortunately) and eventually they came across an abandoned town and run into a family who begrudgingly take them in for the night. Once night hits, the family turns into the cannibals and attack Lark and Tansy. They barely make it out alive but are captured by people and are taken underground.
Here they are locked in a cell and Tansy is taken away. Lark and Oren break out of the Cell and explore where they are and find themselves in a city. Barely escaping another arrest, they are taken to the resistance and find out Promethius is using renewables to power, like Larks home city. A plan is hatched to overthrow the leader and when she is face to face with him, Lark sees it is her brother that she’s been searching for.
I should have seen that coming. I don’t know why I didn’t think he was but I thought he’d be trapped there, not running the place.
Lark manages to convince him to release the prisoners and they can escape, but one of her brothers followers turns on them and tries to kill everyone. Lark being all badass, kills him and in the end, leaves to go back to her city to stop what they’re doing too.
I’m anxious to get this third book started and over with to be honest. I really hope there is a ton more excitement and action and less inner thoughts. I realize this is good for character development and overall world building but there is such a thing as too much. Fingers crossed that this last book really blows me away
I was incredibly bored up until those last 200 pages and I swear I was dozing off at different times of the book. I don’t know what it is...it seems like there was too much talking and too much inner monologue than there was action or excitement.
After leaving the iron wood, Lark and Tansy traversed through the world looking for Lark’s brother. There was some this, there was some that (nothing worth mentioning unfortunately) and eventually they came across an abandoned town and run into a family who begrudgingly take them in for the night. Once night hits, the family turns into the cannibals and attack Lark and Tansy. They barely make it out alive but are captured by people and are taken underground.
Here they are locked in a cell and Tansy is taken away. Lark and Oren break out of the Cell and explore where they are and find themselves in a city. Barely escaping another arrest, they are taken to the resistance and find out Promethius is using renewables to power, like Larks home city. A plan is hatched to overthrow the leader and when she is face to face with him, Lark sees it is her brother that she’s been searching for.
I should have seen that coming. I don’t know why I didn’t think he was but I thought he’d be trapped there, not running the place.
Lark manages to convince him to release the prisoners and they can escape, but one of her brothers followers turns on them and tries to kill everyone. Lark being all badass, kills him and in the end, leaves to go back to her city to stop what they’re doing too.
I’m anxious to get this third book started and over with to be honest. I really hope there is a ton more excitement and action and less inner thoughts. I realize this is good for character development and overall world building but there is such a thing as too much. Fingers crossed that this last book really blows me away
golden_lily's review against another edition
4.0
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Lethe may be a bigger city than Lark’s hometown, but Shadowlark feels small next to Skylark. Some of that is obviously intentional, Lark’s agoraphobia vs Oren’s claustrophobia. Alone in the wilderness vs joining a revolution hidden, (literally,) within city walls. Finding new friends vs losing them.
Unfortunately where Skylark kept me up late, guessing, and failing to guess, the twists, Shadowlark’s big reveal was pretty apparent early on. The first book is big with discovery and magical world building, while the second is much more tightly focused on one city, one fight. That’s certainly not a negative, but because survival in the wilderness was one of the things that made the first book unique, it’s disappointing that more of the Shadowlark doesn’t take place outside. After an early scene in the ruins above Lethe, which, admittedly, was excellent, it becomes a little generic.
I don’t mean to be critical, because I hope my score reflects a great enjoyment of the book. It just didn’t speak to me the way the first did and I was left wanting. But, we are introduced to some very interesting new characters, include queer characters, which always thrills me in YA fantasy. (Or adult fantasy. Or sci-fi. Or contemporary...) The aforementioned scene in the ruins is tense and emotional, and was a real standout for me. Lethe is a hybrid of the city within the Wall and the Iron Forest, giving us our first good look at how magic and technology can coexist. There’s a lot of interest and to like.
Lastly, I appreciate how grey everything has become. Shadowlark asks a lot of questions about the nature of humanity and what evil is. It’s easy to look at cannibalistic shadows and to draw a line, but when they’re not as in-human as you thought? What then? And what expense would you spare for someone you love?
It’s just a shame it came after one of my favorite books of 2013 and has to set the stage for what comes next. Shadowlark may suffer from middle book syndrome, but the conclusion to the Skylark Trilogy remains at the top of my to-be-read list.
Lethe may be a bigger city than Lark’s hometown, but Shadowlark feels small next to Skylark. Some of that is obviously intentional, Lark’s agoraphobia vs Oren’s claustrophobia. Alone in the wilderness vs joining a revolution hidden, (literally,) within city walls. Finding new friends vs losing them.
Unfortunately where Skylark kept me up late, guessing, and failing to guess, the twists, Shadowlark’s big reveal was pretty apparent early on. The first book is big with discovery and magical world building, while the second is much more tightly focused on one city, one fight. That’s certainly not a negative, but because survival in the wilderness was one of the things that made the first book unique, it’s disappointing that more of the Shadowlark doesn’t take place outside. After an early scene in the ruins above Lethe, which, admittedly, was excellent, it becomes a little generic.
I don’t mean to be critical, because I hope my score reflects a great enjoyment of the book. It just didn’t speak to me the way the first did and I was left wanting. But, we are introduced to some very interesting new characters, include queer characters, which always thrills me in YA fantasy. (Or adult fantasy. Or sci-fi. Or contemporary...) The aforementioned scene in the ruins is tense and emotional, and was a real standout for me. Lethe is a hybrid of the city within the Wall and the Iron Forest, giving us our first good look at how magic and technology can coexist. There’s a lot of interest and to like.
Lastly, I appreciate how grey everything has become. Shadowlark asks a lot of questions about the nature of humanity and what evil is. It’s easy to look at cannibalistic shadows and to draw a line, but when they’re not as in-human as you thought? What then? And what expense would you spare for someone you love?
It’s just a shame it came after one of my favorite books of 2013 and has to set the stage for what comes next. Shadowlark may suffer from middle book syndrome, but the conclusion to the Skylark Trilogy remains at the top of my to-be-read list.
emily_woodal's review against another edition
3.0
So, yea....this one got another 3 star from me. It was only going to be a 2 (maybe even a 1) but it got really good in the last 150-200 pages. So I would say the 3 star is warranted.
I was incredibly bored up until those last 200 pages and I swear I was dozing off at different times of the book. I don’t know what it is...it seems like there was too much talking and too much inner monologue than there was action or excitement.
After leaving the iron wood, Lark and Tansy traversed through the world looking for Lark’s brother. There was some this, there was some that (nothing worth mentioning unfortunately) and eventually they came across an abandoned town and run into a family who begrudgingly take them in for the night. Once night hits, the family turns into the cannibals and attack Lark and Tansy. They barely make it out alive but are captured by people and are taken underground.
Here they are locked in a cell and Tansy is taken away. Lark and Oren break out of the Cell and explore where they are and find themselves in a city. Barely escaping another arrest, they are taken to the resistance and find out Promethius is using renewables to power, like Larks home city. A plan is hatched to overthrow the leader and when she is face to face with him, Lark sees it is her brother that she’s been searching for.
I should have seen that coming. I don’t know why I didn’t think he was but I thought he’d be trapped there, not running the place.
Lark manages to convince him to release the prisoners and they can escape, but one of her brothers followers turns on them and tries to kill everyone. Lark being all badass, kills him and in the end, leaves to go back to her city to stop what they’re doing too.
I’m anxious to get this third book started and over with to be honest. I really hope there is a ton more excitement and action and less inner thoughts. I realize this is good for character development and overall world building but there is such a thing as too much. Fingers crossed that this last book really blows me away
I was incredibly bored up until those last 200 pages and I swear I was dozing off at different times of the book. I don’t know what it is...it seems like there was too much talking and too much inner monologue than there was action or excitement.
After leaving the iron wood, Lark and Tansy traversed through the world looking for Lark’s brother. There was some this, there was some that (nothing worth mentioning unfortunately) and eventually they came across an abandoned town and run into a family who begrudgingly take them in for the night. Once night hits, the family turns into the cannibals and attack Lark and Tansy. They barely make it out alive but are captured by people and are taken underground.
Here they are locked in a cell and Tansy is taken away. Lark and Oren break out of the Cell and explore where they are and find themselves in a city. Barely escaping another arrest, they are taken to the resistance and find out Promethius is using renewables to power, like Larks home city. A plan is hatched to overthrow the leader and when she is face to face with him, Lark sees it is her brother that she’s been searching for.
I should have seen that coming. I don’t know why I didn’t think he was but I thought he’d be trapped there, not running the place.
Lark manages to convince him to release the prisoners and they can escape, but one of her brothers followers turns on them and tries to kill everyone. Lark being all badass, kills him and in the end, leaves to go back to her city to stop what they’re doing too.
I’m anxious to get this third book started and over with to be honest. I really hope there is a ton more excitement and action and less inner thoughts. I realize this is good for character development and overall world building but there is such a thing as too much. Fingers crossed that this last book really blows me away
lisamparkin's review against another edition
4.0
Definitely a bit slower in the beginning than Skylark. Very good - great development. Awesome addition to the series.
bella2382's review against another edition
adventurous
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
timberwolf's review against another edition
adventurous
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0