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Shadow Study
by Maria V. Snyder
I really really really wanted to love this book. The original Study series is in my top five trilogies of all time and Yelena is one of my favorite characters. But this book just felt like a cheap knockout to be perfectly honest.
What happened to the tough kickass Yelena who was always the underdog but came up kicking? There was way to little action in this book, it was mostly dialogue and yes we were introduced to a lot of mystery and things that will need to be solved. The commander plot was interesting as were the Valek flashbacks but honestly it all felt rather sloppily put together.
Yelena spent most of this book feeling miserable, and we didn't see a lot of her because of the rotating point of views and Valek spent most of it pining over Yelena and seeming really really old. It felt like both had lost their game. These two have been one of my book OTP's for over six years and know after reading this, I'm feeling king of meh about them. I felt very little throughout the entire book, I laughed maybe twice (both over Janco I think) and I much prefered Opal to Yelena in this (even though she's only in it a little) and this is saying something since the Glass books really didn't do it for me and I despised Opal until I re-read them last year. Onara was rather interesting, I paused somewhere along the way and thought that a story about her would be intriguing which again shows how lackluster the main one was. I paused quite a bit through reading this; mostly to cringe.
Also that ending. Gah! Ok, so I had sort of guessed it about halfway through but I was crossing my fingers and inwardly hoping that I was wrong. I was not. My first reaction after reading that last sentance was to get the book away from me. It was... maybe it's just me but it just doesn't make sense for those characters and well I'm really disappointed.
If this were any other book I'd probably give it two stars but I'm still attached to Yelana and the whole world so it gets that third star because I'm sentimental. I'll probably read the next one but it might take me a while. When this happened in Arcadia Bell it took me months to work up the nerve to read book four after the last page in the third one. Banishing the Dark sat on my shelves for months. Anyways I can hope Night Study will be better.
What happened to the tough kickass Yelena who was always the underdog but came up kicking? There was way to little action in this book, it was mostly dialogue and yes we were introduced to a lot of mystery and things that will need to be solved. The commander plot was interesting as were the Valek flashbacks but honestly it all felt rather sloppily put together.
Yelena spent most of this book feeling miserable, and we didn't see a lot of her because of the rotating point of views and Valek spent most of it pining over Yelena and seeming really really old. It felt like both had lost their game. These two have been one of my book OTP's for over six years and know after reading this, I'm feeling king of meh about them. I felt very little throughout the entire book, I laughed maybe twice (both over Janco I think) and I much prefered Opal to Yelena in this (even though she's only in it a little) and this is saying something since the Glass books really didn't do it for me and I despised Opal until I re-read them last year. Onara was rather interesting, I paused somewhere along the way and thought that a story about her would be intriguing which again shows how lackluster the main one was. I paused quite a bit through reading this; mostly to cringe.
Also that ending. Gah! Ok, so I had sort of guessed it about halfway through but I was crossing my fingers and inwardly hoping that I was wrong. I was not. My first reaction after reading that last sentance was to get the book away from me. It was... maybe it's just me but it just doesn't make sense for those characters and well I'm really disappointed.
If this were any other book I'd probably give it two stars but I'm still attached to Yelana and the whole world so it gets that third star because I'm sentimental. I'll probably read the next one but it might take me a while. When this happened in Arcadia Bell it took me months to work up the nerve to read book four after the last page in the third one. Banishing the Dark sat on my shelves for months. Anyways I can hope Night Study will be better.