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A review by netflix_and_lil
Dark Days by Derek Landy
4.0
Apparently I have false memories of this book, because an event and character death I THOUGHT I remembered never happened and I've been looking forward to it this whole time... oh well, it meant that reading this book was like reading it for the first time.
Compared to the season finale that was The Faceless Ones, Dark Days suffers from first-episode-of-season-two-itis just a tad; aka, it feel it needs to fix everything as quickly as possible so we can get back to the usual. Unfortunately, it somewhat dampens the harrowing conclusion of the last book when the whole team is reunited a quarter in. I wouldn't have been against them spending a little longer in the alternate dimension. Change up the setting a little - apparently half the appeal of this book is fuelling my wistful thinking of what could have been (though it feels weird to say I was disappointed Guild didn't stitch up his ears and blow up a stadium of people).
But as always, big old asterisk beside all that because it was still perfect and everything I needed and I will still die for Fletcher Renn, if anything more enthusiastically after this one.
Compared to the season finale that was The Faceless Ones, Dark Days suffers from first-episode-of-season-two-itis just a tad; aka, it feel it needs to fix everything as quickly as possible so we can get back to the usual. Unfortunately, it somewhat dampens the harrowing conclusion of the last book when the whole team is reunited a quarter in. I wouldn't have been against them spending a little longer in the alternate dimension. Change up the setting a little - apparently half the appeal of this book is fuelling my wistful thinking of what could have been (though it feels weird to say I was disappointed Guild didn't stitch up his ears and blow up a stadium of people).
But as always, big old asterisk beside all that because it was still perfect and everything I needed and I will still die for Fletcher Renn, if anything more enthusiastically after this one.