A Gathering of Shadows (A Darker Shade of Magic #2): V. E. Schwab

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Kell can't go with her. He has responsibilities . . . PLUS, you know, there's that thing that happened, that thing that tied him even closer to the royal family . . . The royal family he's meant to be part of . . . The royal family that instead treats him like a commodity . . . Alucard visits Prince Rhy, and we learn that they used to be together, but Alucard broke the prince’s heart. Kell hates Alucard for it. It’s unbelievable how I started this book with the lowest possible expectation and it still managed to disappoint me. I know this is a beloved book in the YA community, you might wanna stay away from reading this review if you’re easily offended. Seriously stay away. Everyone thinks I have a death wish, you know? But I don't want to die - dying is easy. No, I want to live, but getting close to death is the only way to feel alive. And once you do, it makes you realize that everything you were actually doing before wasn't actually living. It was just making do. Call me crazy, but I think we do the best living when the stakes are high.” The writing style is detailed and evocative - you can picture this world so easily, even though it is highly sensational, and you can feel the magic running through it. Schwab crafts scenes with both description and tension, firmly cementing her as one of my favourite fantasy authors.

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Lila was annoying in the first book, but in this book, she was even worse. She would repeat "I am one of a kind" to herself every time she had a little inner monologue. It was the stupidest thing ever. She was so not like other girls that I almost choked on my cereal. No shit. What’s next? Everyone’s dead when they’re killed? Everyone’s alive when they have a heartbeat? You can clap if you have hands?

How did A Gathering of Shadows end?

Lila’s eyes widened in amazement and relief. She smiled a small, private smile, and then buried the look beneath something more fitting—an expression somewhere between grateful and beseeching, with a dash of wary hope.

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Originally, A Gathering of Shadows was supposed to have three more chapters and end with the rooftop scene in A Conjuring of Light. [3] [4] Rhy is the same stereotype I've seen over and over again. The moody, ungrateful, WiTtY prince who doesn't want to have responsibility and just wants to party. How funny. How creative. *yawns* He's so done with being rich and powerful and whatnot. How boring, am I right? He wants to be a RoGuE. Kell walking towards me with his endless angst and frown but then, seems like a random thought appeared in his head and he said: Prior to the publication of A Darker Shade of Magic, Schwab shared a few snippets from some of her multiple WIPs. One of them (Number 3) seemingly belonged to A Gathering of Shadows. Somehow, I managed to like the other characters more, which is good because they did the whole book more enjoyable.Lila has an inflated sense of self-importance. She thinks she's all that. We're told exactly what we should like about her. She's one of a kind. She's smart. She's clever. She's witty. She's strong. She's powerful. We get it. It's never shown, it's just said straight to our faces via her inner monologue. People keep warning Lila that what she's doing is stupid, but of course she's so smart and clever that she doesn't listen. This book set fire to my feelings and shattered my mind. Tore my heart into pieces and stole my soul. Simultaneously laughing and crying. Can I give this book more than five stars? Because it deserves at least forty. From the first book, the atmosphere was supposed to be dark, but in this one, it just became darker and heavier. And I think it would’ve figured given the title. But even so, I was expecting a bit more to happen. You're right," continued Rhy, "I should have just drawn a frowning face. But then everyone would know it's you."

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Crossing worlds, killing royals, saving cities. The marks of every good courtship.”But, instead of settling down, Lila Bard decided to sail off and become a pirate (yes, really). “I know where you sleep, Bard." A Darker Shade of Magic was on my "Best Of" list for 2015. So high hopes were involved for A Gathering of Shadows. Already from this sample I know it's going to be up to the standards of the first book. When the full length book is released hopefully we'll find that it exceeds its predecessor. Emery" is the Norman form of the Germanic medieval name "Emmerich." [33] "Emmerich" was either composed of ermen ("whole, universal"), amal ("work, labour"), or heim ("home") and ric ("power"). [34] After walking away from Kell in Red London, Lila ends up on the Night Spire, a ship in the service of the Arnesian crown. The captain, Alucard Emery, allows her to take the place of one of his crewmen that she killed. Lila and the captain soon begin meeting up in the evenings so that Alucard can teach her their language and maybe even magic since he seems to be a welder of it. During her four months at sea, Lila practices magic using the game board Kell gave her. She is getting better.If there is a god, she thought, a celestial body, a heavenly power, or anyone above—or below—who might just like to see me live another day, for pity’s or entertainment’s sake, now would be a good time to intercede. With A Gathering of Shadows, I didn’t feel like I was getting the same vibe I got with A Darker Shade of Magic, the first book. And that, in itself, was a good thing, but not always the best.