A review by chenoadallen
The Shining Court by Michelle West

3.0

Overall, I enjoy this series, but it needs some heavy editing - especially this book - for both length and awkward writing (for example: "At his feet, literally paralyzed by her own fear, was a woman who would perish when her heart stopped beating.") The other books (in all three interconnected series) have kept me hooked with character development - I'm ready to give up the series halfway through each one (when it's extra-slow going), and then some new character enters, or some major character development happens, and I give the next book a chance. That didn't happen in The Shining Court. I'm not sure now why I'm reading the next one, except that I hope things pick back up once I catch up to where House Wars picks pack up (w/r/t internal chronology), since those are most recent and best-written.