A review by silly_little_clown
Shadows Return by Lynn Flewelling

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

The beginning of this book was SO ROUGH. I had a really hard time reading once Alec and Seregil
were captured and made into slaves.
All the
torture and human experiments
were just a really tough read. Sometimes I skim through paragraphs because it just got too detailed in describing the horrors. I would suggest people look up the content warnings 100% before starting this because I usually could stomach most violence and gore, but this still took me by surprise. It honestly felt like reading a whump fic.

I’m glad I made it through though. Everything else barring the suffering was good. Very curious as to how the
child situation
will pan out, now that it’s revealed that it could
literally revive the dead and cause mass destruction.
It would definitely create more political tension and intrigue for sure. But I wish this book had more thievery and espionage.
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