A review by audreychamaine
Brightly Woven by Alexandra Bracken

3.0

Brightly Woven is a story that follows the journey Sydelle has with wizard Wayland North. They are on a race against time to present evidence in order to halt a war. Something I liked about this book is the way that magic is manipulated by wizards through a magical object and based on color. The romance that slowly develops pleasantly reminded me of that between Wizard Howl and Sophie in [b:Howl's Moving Castle|6294|Howl's Moving Castle (Castle, #1)|Diana Wynne Jones|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165560187s/6294.jpg|2001]. The writing was a problem for me at times, however. There were points while reading the story that became lost in what was happening. It was as if connections were missing between plot points and character actions, causing me to have to read passages over and over again to understand what was going on. This jarred me out of the story, something that I don't like when reading fantasy. I think the writing could have used stronger editing on the part of the publisher.