A review by maddisreadingcorner
A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab

4.0

I love this series!! Sooo good, I’m glad I waited until all 3 books were released. Even though I’m clearly incapable of reading like a normal person now, and I don’t even own the third book yet. Either way, when I get it, it’s going to be amazing, no doubt about it.
Not going to lie, the begging was kinda slow which is also why it took me so long to read because I kept putting it down. As much as I love Lila, her passages in the beginning were not super fun for me to read. I want to say in maybe the 150 or 200 page mark the story started to pick up?? I don’t know for sure though because it’s been so long.
What I do know is that when it picked up it was so amazing, I typically don’t love reading action scenes or fighting scenes, they don’t interest me at all, even when I watch movies I kind of zone out when the fighting scenes are on until the characters are all just talking and such again. But the way she wrote the Essen Tasch was really well done, I liked to see the use of the other elements and how a particular someone uses and explores their magic. I’m trying to not be spoilery, but is that even a spoiler??
Anyways, way to end on a damn cliff hanger!! A little disrespectful that she would do that to me, but it’s okay, I’ll forgive her because she brought this story to life in the first place lol