kat_a_strophe 's review for:

The Sun & Its Shade by Piper C.J.

3.5

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Sooooo….
This book was good but not great like the first book. There was so much potential for growth but it all came back to the neediness of Amaris/Nox. In the first book it was stellar but as the characters grew in this installment it felt forced and out of the blue for them to be suddenly needy of each other and to dismiss the others they’d developed feels for. It was such a decapitation that was a little gutting. 
Gad and Amaris had incredible chemistry even though it grew exhausting to run through their bicker banter about the same thing over and over. I’m actually rooting for them. They’re probably the reason I’m going into book 3. That, and seeing how Ceres and Moira duke it out as if this is Mordor vs Middle Earth. 
I was incredibly surprised by the ending. It wasn’t because I didn’t expect it. I did. It was on the predictable side. I just didn’t expect it to be so GOT. lol.