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The Fragile Threads of Power by V.E. Schwab

16 reviews

softwindflower's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death and Torture

Minor: Child abuse, Sexual content, and Alcohol

lvl52_grant's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

This book is a loveletter to the first series, and felt more like a chance to explore the setting and characters as they've grown. It reminded me why I loved the first series, and it was a welcome return. I did feel, however, that Delilah Bard was cut short towards the end of the book. In the end, she just becomes downright cruel in how she deals with others, which felt unfair to the character. She's always been driven, willing to what it takes, but in the last hundred pages there were many moments that felt like she was actually meant to be the villain. A lot of her development happened between the first series and this one, and maybe that's why it felt unearned, but I don't know. 
I still loved all the other characters, and the introduction of new ones was lots of fun. I'm looking forward to spending more time in Red London, and White.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Alcohol

Minor: Sexual content

hshoue's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Physical abuse and Sexual content

barda's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Physical abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual content and Death of parent

takarakei's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Schwab’s writing had really improved since writing the original trilogy. I’m not sure why I was under the impression that previous characters were going to be less of the focus, but that was not the case! For readers of the original series this is great because we all love those characters, but it does mean this cannot be read without having read the original trilogy. Which is fine! Perhaps I just had a wrong impression. There are new and interesting characters introduced, but I’d actually say more of the book takes place from old characters pov.

Having just read the original trilogy earlier this year I felt a lot of the story was spent explaining things that I already knew. Perhaps this was done for people who had read the series long ago, but I found those parts to be rather redundant. My other criticism is that Schwab tends to tell the same plot point from multiple characters’ POVs without really adding much in each case so there were parts that seemed repetitive plot wise. Overall the plot seemed to be setting up for the rest of this new trilogy.

This was clearly a labor of love for a world and characters the author truly loves. There were many squeal-worthy moments between old characters. Fans of the series will find a lot of fun in this book (hence my personal high rating for this book).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Blood

Moderate: Homophobia, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual content and Suicidal thoughts

mo345's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Torture, and Alcohol

Minor: Sexual content and War