Scan barcode
A review by annettebooksofhopeanddreams
Reign of Magic by K.M. Shea
4.0
It's hard to explain how things work in my brain sometimes. I love reading. I can easily read two books a day if you'd let me. And yet bigger books intimidate me. However, I loved the Timeless Fairy Tales and the previous two books in this series so much that I refused to let the fact that this book was big keep me from diving in. Especially because I'm incredibly curious to understand more of what is going on!
For some reason I thought that we would catch up with the happenings of the Fairy Tale retellings in this book. I was wrong. After finishing this book I don't even doubt that the next book is filled with mostly, if not only, the last few tales we haven't seen yet. You would think that reading tales you've already read could get boring, but the opposite is true. I haven't been bored for a second. I once more flew through the book and enjoyed everything.
And that's mostly because it's quite clear that the fairy retellings showed only little of what is really going on. They focussed on the romance, on the couple, on them finding each other. This series focusses on the bigger thread, the politics and Angelique trying to save an entire world all on her own. In the fairytale retellings we saw her slowly getting more tired, annoyed and exhausted, now we see why. We see how hard she works, we see how frustrated she is, how she can't really recover.
We most of all see how the fight looks more and more hopeless. Of course we already knew that the Chosen have a very powerful relic, but we're also seeing how many powerful magic users are working for them. We also see how little the conclave actually does and I can't wait to figure out why. Is it fear? Is it someone sabotaging them? I most of all can't wait to see how this will all play out once we're past the Snow White storyline!
For some reason I thought that we would catch up with the happenings of the Fairy Tale retellings in this book. I was wrong. After finishing this book I don't even doubt that the next book is filled with mostly, if not only, the last few tales we haven't seen yet. You would think that reading tales you've already read could get boring, but the opposite is true. I haven't been bored for a second. I once more flew through the book and enjoyed everything.
And that's mostly because it's quite clear that the fairy retellings showed only little of what is really going on. They focussed on the romance, on the couple, on them finding each other. This series focusses on the bigger thread, the politics and Angelique trying to save an entire world all on her own. In the fairytale retellings we saw her slowly getting more tired, annoyed and exhausted, now we see why. We see how hard she works, we see how frustrated she is, how she can't really recover.
We most of all see how the fight looks more and more hopeless. Of course we already knew that the Chosen have a very powerful relic, but we're also seeing how many powerful magic users are working for them. We also see how little the conclave actually does and I can't wait to figure out why. Is it fear? Is it someone sabotaging them? I most of all can't wait to see how this will all play out once we're past the Snow White storyline!