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rae_rif 's review for:
A Darker Shade of Magic
by V.E. Schwab
4.5? so close to 5 stars. i REALLY REALLY liked this book and can't wait to read the next one. the world building was great, loved the idea of the different colored londons and their varying degrees of magic/warmth. kell was a great protagonist, not perfect but close enough that i really routed for him. i loved how he really cared for prince rhy and clearly viewed him like a brother and would (and did) do anything to save him. but lila was clearly my fave. a tomboy who dreams of being a pirate, who is completely self-sufficient and has some magic in her even though she comes from dreary grey london without magic. i wonder if she will end up somehow being antari also, and that's why she could travel between worlds.
so many questions though! the end when kell is fighting athos was a tad bit anti-climatic. and i'm still confused...athos and kell were fighting in white london, and kell was losing b/c he wasn't letting the stone totally take him over the way athos was, and then...athos created a snake but somehow seemed to lose power over it, and the snake killed him and then when it came for kell, kell killed it? also, he just turned astrid to stone and then crushed her? also when he put the 2 pieces of the black stone together, he said the power that surged through him felt "right" unlike when it was one piece and it was clearly dark magic. is that b/c the stone was so happy to be one piece again, or was it somehow not nefarious anymore? either way, putting the stone in holland's hand (who was still alive) and sending him to black london was obvs a disaster.
was obvs V sad when lila walked away (without looking back!) after their precious kiss. i guess it's too early for them to totally get together, but i would have been all about that.
so many questions though! the end when kell is fighting athos was a tad bit anti-climatic. and i'm still confused...athos and kell were fighting in white london, and kell was losing b/c he wasn't letting the stone totally take him over the way athos was, and then...athos created a snake but somehow seemed to lose power over it, and the snake killed him and then when it came for kell, kell killed it? also, he just turned astrid to stone and then crushed her? also when he put the 2 pieces of the black stone together, he said the power that surged through him felt "right" unlike when it was one piece and it was clearly dark magic. is that b/c the stone was so happy to be one piece again, or was it somehow not nefarious anymore? either way, putting the stone in holland's hand (who was still alive) and sending him to black london was obvs a disaster.
was obvs V sad when lila walked away (without looking back!) after their precious kiss. i guess it's too early for them to totally get together, but i would have been all about that.