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Reign of Shadows
by Sophie Jordan
Reign of Shadows, by Sophie Jordan, was a book I could not read quick enough. Sophie kept me on the edge of my seat throughout my entire time reading. I didn’t want to put my book down to do necessary activities such as eating and sleeping. I did eventually, but I didn’t want to.
The novel goes back and forth between the two perspectives of Luna and Fowler. Right away, we learn that the world has been in an everlasting solar eclipse, dubbed the Black Eclipse, shadowing Luna and Fowler’s world in darkness. Luna has spent her entire life living in a tower in the middle of the forest. As the only living heir to the kingdom of Relhok, her caregivers kept her hidden to protect her from the dangers that came with the eclipse, and the nasty tyrant who killed her parents and overtook the throne. Fowler is a person who’s been exposed to every element of the eclipse, a person who has been hardened by loss, and because of that, refuses to let anyone else get near him.
Right from the start, I wanted Luna to break down his walls and let her light fill all of his empty, darkened voids. There are books when you know the love interests will find themselves there at that point eventually, but for Fowler and Luna, I wanted that to happen sooner, rather than later. Their personalities were so striking and intense and contrasting, but Luna proved to be Fowler’s equal, not an inferior. She was someone who could save herself and put him in his place. However, she was also without experience. She had no idea of the perils that lay beyond her knowledge of the world. He did. And getting through the hazards together proved to strengthen both of them for the better.
Reign of Shadows is like a familiar fairytale, but the one that you wish you’d read rather than the one you actually did read. It has the feeling of Rapunzel—think Disney’s Tangled mixed with the creepier aspects of the original Grimm Brothers’ tale. This book had plenty of twists and turns, right down to the very last page.
There are many predators in this nightly world. One of the most prominent dangers that lie beyond the tower are dwellers–disgusting creatures with toxins dripping off of them, so awful that if it got on you, and it didn’t kill you, you’d wish you were dead. But dwellers aren’t the only threat, some of the deadliest are the humans themselves.
I’ve been a longtime fan of Sophie Jordan, and for good reason. Her writing is unlike any I’ve ever read before. She has such a talent to create lyrical worlds with only a few adjectives. Her characters are three-dimensional, with feelings and traits that are normal of the human capacity. But not only that, her writing just makes you feel. It’s the least that you can do as the reader to just hand her your heart and let her wrench it with her words as she sees fit. And trust me, you will want her to.
The next book can’t get here fast enough.
The novel goes back and forth between the two perspectives of Luna and Fowler. Right away, we learn that the world has been in an everlasting solar eclipse, dubbed the Black Eclipse, shadowing Luna and Fowler’s world in darkness. Luna has spent her entire life living in a tower in the middle of the forest. As the only living heir to the kingdom of Relhok, her caregivers kept her hidden to protect her from the dangers that came with the eclipse, and the nasty tyrant who killed her parents and overtook the throne. Fowler is a person who’s been exposed to every element of the eclipse, a person who has been hardened by loss, and because of that, refuses to let anyone else get near him.
Right from the start, I wanted Luna to break down his walls and let her light fill all of his empty, darkened voids. There are books when you know the love interests will find themselves there at that point eventually, but for Fowler and Luna, I wanted that to happen sooner, rather than later. Their personalities were so striking and intense and contrasting, but Luna proved to be Fowler’s equal, not an inferior. She was someone who could save herself and put him in his place. However, she was also without experience. She had no idea of the perils that lay beyond her knowledge of the world. He did. And getting through the hazards together proved to strengthen both of them for the better.
Reign of Shadows is like a familiar fairytale, but the one that you wish you’d read rather than the one you actually did read. It has the feeling of Rapunzel—think Disney’s Tangled mixed with the creepier aspects of the original Grimm Brothers’ tale. This book had plenty of twists and turns, right down to the very last page.
There are many predators in this nightly world. One of the most prominent dangers that lie beyond the tower are dwellers–disgusting creatures with toxins dripping off of them, so awful that if it got on you, and it didn’t kill you, you’d wish you were dead. But dwellers aren’t the only threat, some of the deadliest are the humans themselves.
I’ve been a longtime fan of Sophie Jordan, and for good reason. Her writing is unlike any I’ve ever read before. She has such a talent to create lyrical worlds with only a few adjectives. Her characters are three-dimensional, with feelings and traits that are normal of the human capacity. But not only that, her writing just makes you feel. It’s the least that you can do as the reader to just hand her your heart and let her wrench it with her words as she sees fit. And trust me, you will want her to.
The next book can’t get here fast enough.