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A review by bananatricky
Whisper of Shadows by Diana Pharaoh Francis
4.0
Three and a half stars.
Argh, caught up already! This felt like a mid-series arc-progressing book, ie lots happened but not much gets resolved.
My previous niggles increased: Riley's super special snowflake status increased (again), although TBH some of my irritation may be because I'm not good at visualisation and I really didn't know what she was doing in and out of the trace.
The arch-villain from the last book, Percy, has fallen off the face of the earth (or so it seems) and now there are even more super-villains to contend with - any thoughts I had that magic was centred in Diamond City have been eliminated. It is everywhere and there are super-Tyets which make the local Tyets look like a church group!!
Oh, and Riley's father is back - but why? We don't even find out before Riley's step-mother's house is attacked by the FBI and Price is arrested under the Rice Act.
Whereas in the last book I was astonished at how much happened in only half the novel, in this book the opposite is true. In quick succession Price is arrested and then Touray is abducted but only one of those issues is resolved by the end of the book.
Oh, and guess what? Seems like being a special snowflake is catching!
I think the next book will inform me of whether there is a real arc to this series or whether each book has a new, even bigger badder enemy that never actually gets vanquished.
I still loved it and I'm waiting eagerly for book four.
Argh, caught up already! This felt like a mid-series arc-progressing book, ie lots happened but not much gets resolved.
My previous niggles increased: Riley's super special snowflake status increased (again), although TBH some of my irritation may be because I'm not good at visualisation and I really didn't know what she was doing in and out of the trace.
The arch-villain from the last book, Percy, has fallen off the face of the earth (or so it seems) and now there are even more super-villains to contend with - any thoughts I had that magic was centred in Diamond City have been eliminated. It is everywhere and there are super-Tyets which make the local Tyets look like a church group!!
Oh, and Riley's father is back - but why? We don't even find out before Riley's step-mother's house is attacked by the FBI and Price is arrested under the Rice Act.
Whereas in the last book I was astonished at how much happened in only half the novel, in this book the opposite is true. In quick succession Price is arrested and then Touray is abducted but only one of those issues is resolved by the end of the book.
Oh, and guess what? Seems like being a special snowflake is catching!
I think the next book will inform me of whether there is a real arc to this series or whether each book has a new, even bigger badder enemy that never actually gets vanquished.
I still loved it and I'm waiting eagerly for book four.