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A review by bookswithclementine
The Shadow of What Was Lost by James Islington
4.0
Genre: adult epic fantasy
Rating: 3.5/5 ⭐️
This book started really well, and I was really intrigued for the first 150 pages or so.
I have to say that the author does a great job at introducing the world and magic in an easy manner that doesn't make you confused at any part.
However, after that, more side characters kept being introduced through the various uninteresting things happening to the main characters, and all the names became jumbled in my head...
I also realized that this book is not character-focused and even the main characters didn't feel fully fleshed out to me by the end of this nearly 700 page book!
Moreover, this book heavily relies on an overall mystery over the trilogy, but as things don't make sense or rather are not fully revealed to us for now, it relies on trusting the author's creative process, which is hard for me since this is the only book I've ever read by him.
I am overall interested enough to continue this series, but I am not fully convinced that the series overall will wrap in a way that will satisfy me.
Rating: 3.5/5 ⭐️
This book started really well, and I was really intrigued for the first 150 pages or so.
I have to say that the author does a great job at introducing the world and magic in an easy manner that doesn't make you confused at any part.
However, after that, more side characters kept being introduced through the various uninteresting things happening to the main characters, and all the names became jumbled in my head...
I also realized that this book is not character-focused and even the main characters didn't feel fully fleshed out to me by the end of this nearly 700 page book!
Moreover, this book heavily relies on an overall mystery over the trilogy, but as things don't make sense or rather are not fully revealed to us for now, it relies on trusting the author's creative process, which is hard for me since this is the only book I've ever read by him.
I am overall interested enough to continue this series, but I am not fully convinced that the series overall will wrap in a way that will satisfy me.