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A review by emilywoodal
Shadowlark by Meagan Spooner
3.0
So, yea....this one got another 3 star from me. It was only going to be a 2 (maybe even a 1) but it got really good in the last 150-200 pages. So I would say the 3 star is warranted.
I was incredibly bored up until those last 200 pages and I swear I was dozing off at different times of the book. I don’t know what it is...it seems like there was too much talking and too much inner monologue than there was action or excitement.
After leaving the iron wood, Lark and Tansy traversed through the world looking for Lark’s brother. There was some this, there was some that (nothing worth mentioning unfortunately) and eventually they came across an abandoned town and run into a family who begrudgingly take them in for the night. Once night hits, the family turns into the cannibals and attack Lark and Tansy. They barely make it out alive but are captured by people and are taken underground.
Here they are locked in a cell and Tansy is taken away. Lark and Oren break out of the Cell and explore where they are and find themselves in a city. Barely escaping another arrest, they are taken to the resistance and find out Promethius is using renewables to power, like Larks home city. A plan is hatched to overthrow the leader and when she is face to face with him, Lark sees it is her brother that she’s been searching for.
I should have seen that coming. I don’t know why I didn’t think he was but I thought he’d be trapped there, not running the place.
Lark manages to convince him to release the prisoners and they can escape, but one of her brothers followers turns on them and tries to kill everyone. Lark being all badass, kills him and in the end, leaves to go back to her city to stop what they’re doing too.
I’m anxious to get this third book started and over with to be honest. I really hope there is a ton more excitement and action and less inner thoughts. I realize this is good for character development and overall world building but there is such a thing as too much. Fingers crossed that this last book really blows me away
I was incredibly bored up until those last 200 pages and I swear I was dozing off at different times of the book. I don’t know what it is...it seems like there was too much talking and too much inner monologue than there was action or excitement.
After leaving the iron wood, Lark and Tansy traversed through the world looking for Lark’s brother. There was some this, there was some that (nothing worth mentioning unfortunately) and eventually they came across an abandoned town and run into a family who begrudgingly take them in for the night. Once night hits, the family turns into the cannibals and attack Lark and Tansy. They barely make it out alive but are captured by people and are taken underground.
Here they are locked in a cell and Tansy is taken away. Lark and Oren break out of the Cell and explore where they are and find themselves in a city. Barely escaping another arrest, they are taken to the resistance and find out Promethius is using renewables to power, like Larks home city. A plan is hatched to overthrow the leader and when she is face to face with him, Lark sees it is her brother that she’s been searching for.
I should have seen that coming. I don’t know why I didn’t think he was but I thought he’d be trapped there, not running the place.
Lark manages to convince him to release the prisoners and they can escape, but one of her brothers followers turns on them and tries to kill everyone. Lark being all badass, kills him and in the end, leaves to go back to her city to stop what they’re doing too.
I’m anxious to get this third book started and over with to be honest. I really hope there is a ton more excitement and action and less inner thoughts. I realize this is good for character development and overall world building but there is such a thing as too much. Fingers crossed that this last book really blows me away