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susana82 's review for:
The Fragile Threads of Power
by V.E. Schwab
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
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:
Complicated
This was like coming back home. It had been so much time since I obsessed over a book, and the first trilogy of Shades made me an addicted for sure. And when I finished book 3 I was left an orphan. I didn't want to go back and face the real world. It was seriously hard.
Then I found out there was this book, and got it, but decided to wait a while to read it. I knew that this Threads trilogy was only one third completed, and I would have to wait a while to have the 3 books. But I eventually had to read it, and here we are. Madame Schwab, please don't be a GRR Martin or a Patrick Rothfuss, and get this trilogy done, pretty please!
And from the first pages, it really felt like going back home, it did. New characters, it is true, but they were well developed and totally blended in the different Londons we got to know from the first trilogy. Kosika was interesting, and there is much more to know from her and what she can do, and if she will turn rotten or not. Tes, a tinkerer, with an amazing gift beyond comprehension. Both of them, as usual, having lived a life of difficulties.
It has been 7 years since the events from the first trilogy, but we got to meet Kell, Lila, Rhy, and Alucard, like the dear old friends that they have been to us. And their interactions haven't changed one bit. We can still get some giggles out of that. I kind of wish there was more of it, more of Kell and Lila, but truth be told, we had plenty of that in the first trilogy.
But of course, after 7 years some things changed too. Rhy is married, has a child. Kell had to adapt to a life with broken magic, and not being able to make use of it, he learned other skills. But how hard it is to adapt when the magic is still there, and he is still wanting to use it, as it has always been part of him?
And there is the plot that carries the story. There is an underground group that wants to end the reign of the Maresh, so they have a plan in action. A stolen object that can do much damage in the wrong hands. And then all of the characters in Red London will end up, one way or another, intertwined in this plot.
I loved this story, it was very well made, and was kept so interesting. There is much to tell yet, and I want to be here for it. In the meantime, I am back to being an orphan.
Then I found out there was this book, and got it, but decided to wait a while to read it. I knew that this Threads trilogy was only one third completed, and I would have to wait a while to have the 3 books. But I eventually had to read it, and here we are. Madame Schwab, please don't be a GRR Martin or a Patrick Rothfuss, and get this trilogy done, pretty please!
And from the first pages, it really felt like going back home, it did. New characters, it is true, but they were well developed and totally blended in the different Londons we got to know from the first trilogy. Kosika was interesting, and there is much more to know from her and what she can do, and if she will turn rotten or not. Tes, a tinkerer, with an amazing gift beyond comprehension. Both of them, as usual, having lived a life of difficulties.
It has been 7 years since the events from the first trilogy, but we got to meet Kell, Lila, Rhy, and Alucard, like the dear old friends that they have been to us. And their interactions haven't changed one bit. We can still get some giggles out of that. I kind of wish there was more of it, more of Kell and Lila, but truth be told, we had plenty of that in the first trilogy.
But of course, after 7 years some things changed too. Rhy is married, has a child. Kell had to adapt to a life with broken magic, and not being able to make use of it, he learned other skills. But how hard it is to adapt when the magic is still there, and he is still wanting to use it, as it has always been part of him?
And there is the plot that carries the story. There is an underground group that wants to end the reign of the Maresh, so they have a plan in action. A stolen object that can do much damage in the wrong hands. And then all of the characters in Red London will end up, one way or another, intertwined in this plot.
I loved this story, it was very well made, and was kept so interesting. There is much to tell yet, and I want to be here for it. In the meantime, I am back to being an orphan.