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azrah786's review
4.0
**I received a proof copy from Harper360YA in exchange for an honest review**
CW: violence, injury, blood, death of parent, war, kidnapping, neglect
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While the beginning was a little slow, Silver In The Mist was a really enjoyable YA fantasy story.
It follows a young spy who infiltrates the neighbouring kingdom as a means to save her own. The magical defences of Aris are weakening and in order to strengthen them as well as prevent any kind of siege, Devlin is tasked with befriending and kidnapping Cerena’s renowned magical caster and bringing her home to help.
The overall story worked wonderfully as a standalone and I feel like its one of those books that has just slipped under a lot of people’s radars. In all honesty I picked this up a lot later than I had planned to but I’m glad I gave it a chance!
All the ideas behind the magic though not fully explained and explored were still really interesting, especially with how it was tied into the history of the world which was slowly uncovered as the plot progressed. The spy side of things and the action scenes were all written really well and keep you entertained.
But the standout has got to be the relationships and how they developed. It is always so refreshing when the central relationships in a book are platonic. These were all brilliantly written both the already established and newly founded and with the leading character being aromantic, it’s just great having that representation there too.
If Emily Victoria ever decides to return to this world and explore it more I would definitely be down to checking it out!
Final Rating - 4/5 Stars
CW: violence, injury, blood, death of parent, war, kidnapping, neglect
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While the beginning was a little slow, Silver In The Mist was a really enjoyable YA fantasy story.
It follows a young spy who infiltrates the neighbouring kingdom as a means to save her own. The magical defences of Aris are weakening and in order to strengthen them as well as prevent any kind of siege, Devlin is tasked with befriending and kidnapping Cerena’s renowned magical caster and bringing her home to help.
The overall story worked wonderfully as a standalone and I feel like its one of those books that has just slipped under a lot of people’s radars. In all honesty I picked this up a lot later than I had planned to but I’m glad I gave it a chance!
All the ideas behind the magic though not fully explained and explored were still really interesting, especially with how it was tied into the history of the world which was slowly uncovered as the plot progressed. The spy side of things and the action scenes were all written really well and keep you entertained.
But the standout has got to be the relationships and how they developed. It is always so refreshing when the central relationships in a book are platonic. These were all brilliantly written both the already established and newly founded and with the leading character being aromantic, it’s just great having that representation there too.
If Emily Victoria ever decides to return to this world and explore it more I would definitely be down to checking it out!
Final Rating - 4/5 Stars
Content Warnings
Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Violence, and War
Minor: Death of parent
p_gonza2's review
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
*Many thanks to Netgalley and Inkyard Press for sending me this arc. All thoughts and opinions are my own*
Silver in the Mist is about an asexual spy who is sent to the rival kingdom to infiltrate their royal court and kidnap the most powerful magic caster to help aid Devlin’s kingdom.
I really liked the world building; how well described both kingdoms were and when Devlin travels we see how different they both are. Fun fact almost everyone in this book is a grey character and I liked that because they were doing what they thought was best for their country and it was interesting reading about them.
Some of my complaints about this book is that when Devlin goes to Cerena, at least for me, I was confused as to why everyone was a layde I think if it was mentioned before hand that it was a neutral term for the nobles would’ve been much better for the reader to know. And my other complaint is that Devlin’s spy skills are mostly talked about but not shown because whatever she needs she finds it too easily; for example she finds really important classified documents on top of a table which doesn’t make sense because it would be somewhere harder to find, same thing with books she’s quick to find the answers she needs from books or when she gets papers from the best spy in her kingdom by picking a lock which you would think that by being a spy they would have better lock systems, but I guess not so that was a bit annoying I wanted Devlin to actually struggle to get her answers.
Overall I enjoyed reading this book I would read it again and pick up a sequel if there’s any since it’s an open ending.
Book cover: 5/5!
Characters: 5/5
Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4./5
Content Warnings
Moderate: Kidnapping, Confinement, and War
Minor: Death of parent
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