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A review by blurrypetals
The Shadow Weave by Annette Marie
5.0
I was a little afraid this would suffer from the same sophomore slump Bind the Soul did, but instead this just got better than the first book. Fingers crossed that can hold up for book three, which is, unfortunately the final stop on the fun train that is Annette Marie's daemon world books...for now.
But for now? Holy shit this was a great ride. Even though this is one of the few prequel series I've read that has a lot of things spoiled for it in its sister series (such as the fact that Lyre and Ash live and buddy up enough to meet Piper a few years later in Chase the Dark) it doesn't make this any less fun.
I failed to mention in the review of the first book how cool I thought Clio's ability to mimic other magics was, so I'm mentioning it now. I thought it was so fucking rad to see her start to collect all these different abilities, such as the aphrodisia from Lyre and the other incubi, the reapers' teleportation, and so on. It's so fun seeing this arsenal of baddassery build up in her.
I also really enjoyed watching Lyre using his aphrodisia as a compulsion so much more in this book. Like, obviously the spell weaving stuff he can do is fucking cool, don't get me wrong, but not only was it fun to see him using something I had personally brushed off as just an ability Lyre had to convince people to have fun sexytimes with him (except for his little battle with Piper in Unleash the Storm when she's possessed by the Sahar) being used as a weapon, it was also fun to see him using his...ahem..."natural talents" to his advantage, especially in his fight with Ash.
It was really fun to see Ash as genuinely threatening in this book, too! Like, obviously he and Lyre end up being best bros forever at some point (which looks to be happening sooner rather than later, it seems) but their fight was so damn cool, seeing them have a real, all-out one on one battle with one another. Lyre with his spells and arrows, Ash with his kickass combat training, Lyre sneaking in a poisoned arrow, Ash being immune to that poison unbeknownst to Lyre, then Lyre using his aphrodisia on Ash to distract him...and the way all of it wrapped up. Just...damn. Good stuff.
I'm very excited to see how this little spinoff trilogy wraps up, especially since my forever girl Jorjeana Marie is credited on the audiobook, probably for a little epilogue of some sort, not unlike the one Ash got with this book (which was another fun surprise), so I'm done describing all my favorite bits to you, dear reader. Onward to the finale!
But for now? Holy shit this was a great ride. Even though this is one of the few prequel series I've read that has a lot of things spoiled for it in its sister series (such as the fact that Lyre and Ash live and buddy up enough to meet Piper a few years later in Chase the Dark) it doesn't make this any less fun.
I failed to mention in the review of the first book how cool I thought Clio's ability to mimic other magics was, so I'm mentioning it now. I thought it was so fucking rad to see her start to collect all these different abilities, such as the aphrodisia from Lyre and the other incubi, the reapers' teleportation, and so on. It's so fun seeing this arsenal of baddassery build up in her.
I also really enjoyed watching Lyre using his aphrodisia as a compulsion so much more in this book. Like, obviously the spell weaving stuff he can do is fucking cool, don't get me wrong, but not only was it fun to see him using something I had personally brushed off as just an ability Lyre had to convince people to have fun sexytimes with him (except for his little battle with Piper in Unleash the Storm when she's possessed by the Sahar) being used as a weapon, it was also fun to see him using his...ahem..."natural talents" to his advantage, especially in his fight with Ash.
It was really fun to see Ash as genuinely threatening in this book, too! Like, obviously he and Lyre end up being best bros forever at some point (which looks to be happening sooner rather than later, it seems) but their fight was so damn cool, seeing them have a real, all-out one on one battle with one another. Lyre with his spells and arrows, Ash with his kickass combat training, Lyre sneaking in a poisoned arrow, Ash being immune to that poison unbeknownst to Lyre, then Lyre using his aphrodisia on Ash to distract him...and the way all of it wrapped up. Just...damn. Good stuff.
I'm very excited to see how this little spinoff trilogy wraps up, especially since my forever girl Jorjeana Marie is credited on the audiobook, probably for a little epilogue of some sort, not unlike the one Ash got with this book (which was another fun surprise), so I'm done describing all my favorite bits to you, dear reader. Onward to the finale!