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A review by annettebooksofhopeanddreams
Curse of Magic by K.M. Shea
4.0
I always love discovering new authors, new writing styles and new story telling techniques. Although some fairytale retellings by K.M. Shea worked better for me than others, it was love at first sight with the way she writes her books. I was therefore really excited to continue with the series focussing on Angelique, who had quickly become one of my favorite characters anyway. Even before I started this series. And today it was finally time for the second book!
In this book we follow Angelique on her search to find her teacher. She's traveling through all the different kingdoms and her search and travels intertwine with the stories we read in the Timeless Fairytales. Although we already know what's going on and how Angelique and all the characters are defeating the darkness slowly taking over I was never bored or losing interest. It was amazing to see Angelique's side of the story.
It was mostly amazing because we finally saw why it takes so incredibly long for everyone else to do something, to notice that this is not an incident but a pattern. We basically got a glimpse of the politics. And those politics are eventually forcing Angelique to grow. She starts as a slightly timid girl, realizing that she has this dangerous power people are afraid of, but the more good she does with it, the more she realizes that she is not the problem here.
I assume it won't take long before we will reach the end of the known path. The next book is quite big, although I guess that might have something to do with the fact that the entire story of Snow White still needs to make an appearance, but although I'm already looking forward to read that story from Angelique's point of view I'm also really looking forward to read what comes after. Because I have the feeling that only then everything can really begin.
In this book we follow Angelique on her search to find her teacher. She's traveling through all the different kingdoms and her search and travels intertwine with the stories we read in the Timeless Fairytales. Although we already know what's going on and how Angelique and all the characters are defeating the darkness slowly taking over I was never bored or losing interest. It was amazing to see Angelique's side of the story.
It was mostly amazing because we finally saw why it takes so incredibly long for everyone else to do something, to notice that this is not an incident but a pattern. We basically got a glimpse of the politics. And those politics are eventually forcing Angelique to grow. She starts as a slightly timid girl, realizing that she has this dangerous power people are afraid of, but the more good she does with it, the more she realizes that she is not the problem here.
I assume it won't take long before we will reach the end of the known path. The next book is quite big, although I guess that might have something to do with the fact that the entire story of Snow White still needs to make an appearance, but although I'm already looking forward to read that story from Angelique's point of view I'm also really looking forward to read what comes after. Because I have the feeling that only then everything can really begin.