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alishaaeileen 's review for:
A Cruel and Fated Light
by Ashley Shuttleworth
I'm sorry but this was an excellent follow up to the first installment. It had been a while so I had forgotten who everyone was but withing about 50 pages I started to remember who and what had happened. I think the first 20% was very slow in setting up what was going to happen in this book, and I remember the first book was very much world building and character driven with plot in the background so I was thinking maybe it would be slow paced as well this time round but it definitely picked up after the first 20%. These characters are so amazing and diverse and the personal growth and friendship/relationship growth we see throughout this book was stunning. Nausicaä is still my favourite right from the start and I loved her background story that we got to learn. I loved reading from all the main characters point of view. I think there is around 5 point of views and none of them annoyed me to the point of skipping like some books do. I liked all the characters and how different they all are. The LGBTQ rep is amazing. It's such a diverse set of people and it's all so normal and that's such an amazing thing to see. The writing is definitely loaded.. in the sense there is so many words and descriptions, that I sometimes felt unnecessary but not bad. They are beautiful descriptions I just would rather get to the dialogue then a page of thoughts and describing the room they just walked into.
Obviously as far as plot goes I think I enjoyed this much more then the first. It had the whole Philosopher stone continuation and I loved how that progressed but I love Arlos lessons with Luck and the adventures in the middle of the night with Nausicaä. The boys had more of a better roll in this book and the "friendship" group we followed when they were all together was hilarious
Last of all that epilogue?! Wow oh wow I was stunned. I knew this person had to be more in the story somehow. It was impossible for them not to be but I never excepted that. It got me 10 times more excited for the next in the series. I can't wait.
Obviously as far as plot goes I think I enjoyed this much more then the first. It had the whole Philosopher stone continuation and I loved how that progressed but I love Arlos lessons with Luck and the adventures in the middle of the night with Nausicaä. The boys had more of a better roll in this book and the "friendship" group we followed when they were all together was hilarious
Last of all that epilogue?! Wow oh wow I was stunned. I knew this person had to be more in the story somehow. It was impossible for them not to be but I never excepted that. It got me 10 times more excited for the next in the series. I can't wait.