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The Shadow of Kyoshi

F.C. Yee

4.27 AVERAGE

tina_tebow's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous hopeful lighthearted 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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This book is the second in the Kyoshi series and was a great addition to the first because it continued the story of Kyoshi’s avatar journey. 

bibliomim's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective 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

winterology's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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one star for each stage of grief i went through

omcha's review against another edition

4.5

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

conout's review against another edition

5.0

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I want more

mccalla25's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous mysterious tense 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

alex_trashking's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous funny reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

sam_treehouse's review against another edition

4.0

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The first is always better, but this one was good too. Honestly, I have no idea what happened in the first half of the book, it lost my attention.

Once Yun came into play more, it picked up. 

Yun's motivations weren't straightforward for me, but maybe I can't accept he's just evil now? I wanted more from him, almost in an anti-hero way, but he was just a villain (I guess that's what Kyoshi had to come to terms with too LOL).

It definitely feels like there should be another book after this one. I'm not sure if that will be true, but in the meantime I'll move on to Yangchen.

meloony's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous emotional 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

jaybeez's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative 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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I enjoyed this book even more than the first. Really loved the exploration into the fire nation and getting an understanding of it's previous problems and how it came to be more nationalistic and fascist over time. I enjoyed the peak we got into that world and also the lore we got surrounding Kurok and Yangchen and the Avatar line and process in general. It's really cool to see how the Avatars can also have flaws, and how Kurok's companions got it so bad too. Seeing more from Hei-Ran and how honor works outside of Zuko was great. Absolutely love Rangi and Kyoshi and their relationship. Yun was a really scary conflict and I liked the extra layer of trying to figure out what was him and what was an evil spirit. I wish we'd gotten to see more from the Flying Opera Company companions but understand why we didn't in this book, and the ending was absolutely FIRE, wink wink.