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Shadow Princess by Susanne Valenti, Caroline Peckham

12 reviews

rasha_reads's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious relaxing medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Alright, I am beginning to see why people are so obsessed with this series. I still don’t completely agree with it but am starting to understand it. My basic opinions on ZA are still the same but as the story progresses, the more I am drawn in.

As the plot advanced, the more I learned about all the characters in terms of back stories and their traits (morally grey doesn’t begin to cover it IMHO), the more interesting it became. BUT this also brought me back to the extremely negative vibes that thread their way through this entire universe. I get that this is dark academia and a bully romance but the more time went by, the darker it seemed to get. And the same badness, toxic behaviours and, frankly, bad decisions (on both sides) kept occurring again and again and again - for over 600+ pages!

However, there was a bright side (sort of). The cleverest thing the authors did was to create two FMCs: one of which is really dark and the other in the throes of that oh so pesky forbidden love / hot for teacher trope. Yeah, I know. Both are dark but one is lighter than the other and so provided a much needed ray of hope in what would otherwise have been an unrelentingly dark tale which would no longer fall into the romantasy genre but would have become a straight up psychological horror that explores the absolute worst of the fae (humanity).

Of course, there is still the spice to consider (and let’s be honest, why else choose to read books of this kind - no judgement) … and in this volume, the level ratchets up from 🌶️🌶️ to 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️. But is that why I am still reading, after four looong books? The answer to this question was granted at the end when I began to realise that there were hidden depths to parts of the story that were wrapped in pride and tragedy.

As in the previous volumes, this series might be dark but it is still escapist reading and am curious to see where it goes, especially after the cliffhanger! And now I’m off to start volume 5…

3.75 stars 🤓📚

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g4bster's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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: Yes

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tuckert2's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional funny tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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cash_mama's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti have really hit their stride with this one. This was so clear with motives and feelings. The characters finally feel finished. This is also the first that made me FEEL something. I had to think about my rating. I wanted to rate low because of how I feel but, because of that, had to give it 5 stars. Storytelling that actually pulls emotion is the best kind.

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hollymileham's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

well this was crazy... dare i say it it's getting good! just love how easy these books are to read after work, they are pure entertainment but also starting to get a bit gut wrenching, the next ones going to hurt i fear

seth to me is the absolute worst and he cannot be redeemed i said what i said.

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tiinak's review against another edition

1.75

dark

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I don't think anybook that I can name over 20 different content warnings for could be recommended. Also, weird to have condemnation arc for main characters.

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ziaxx's review against another edition

1.0

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

So the fae celebrates Christmas?🤨

I now understand the heavy criticism of this book series. This book is the best example to prove all of the points. And I'm too annoyed to write a polite review. But one thing tho, Why the author did the twins so dirty? Even the prostitutes in dark romances have better sense of judgement and a spine but these twins.. Hah!

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