A review by lucerez
The Shadow Weave by Annette Marie

3.0

Clio continues to be frustratingly dim and naive. There's also a feeling that her skills are unearned - she just naturally was born with them - and so the reader doesn't feel much when she's successful at anything. Lyre is much more compelling because he put work into his skills and talents, but he has a major character flaw I'd refer to as "not like other incubi", which the author doesn't seem to have any awareness of. He looks down on other members of his caste even as he suffers from the same stereotypes that he puts on them - it's a classic oppressed outgroup situation, and yet the author might be unfamiliar with the dynamic because she seems to lean into it. The plot and world-building is compelling enough to continue to finish the series, however.