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A review by jessdone
Reap the Shadows by Annette Marie
3.0
The most disappointing installment of the series, I'd suggest skipping it, but it has the most epic set of scenes at the end of the book.
Everything in this book is back sliding. We don't have any new emotional development. Character revert to more juvenile versions of themselves we've already seen them move past. Conflict the group has already over come is brought back and they are forced to retread old information.
This one was a slog. Every time I thought we would tackle something new, the course immediately changed to be about Piper and her angst, which is not why I was reading the series.
There's a lot of development of side characters that doesn't go anywhere. There's a lot of places where the plot could break off, dive into something new and interesting, but instead chooses to be stunted and boring.
I should have felt like the stakes had been raised to the highest point, with a war about to consume the earth and instead I felt "meh" about the whole thing.
All of that said, there's an amazing ending fight scene and I was amped to see where those developments brought us. I don't think it was worth reading all the way through the book for it. I might suggest skimming until this part or even just reading the last few chapters. Nothing really important happens in most of the book and I feel like most readers could just read the last chapters and lose little extra context.
Everything in this book is back sliding. We don't have any new emotional development. Character revert to more juvenile versions of themselves we've already seen them move past. Conflict the group has already over come is brought back and they are forced to retread old information.
This one was a slog. Every time I thought we would tackle something new, the course immediately changed to be about Piper and her angst, which is not why I was reading the series.
There's a lot of development of side characters that doesn't go anywhere. There's a lot of places where the plot could break off, dive into something new and interesting, but instead chooses to be stunted and boring.
I should have felt like the stakes had been raised to the highest point, with a war about to consume the earth and instead I felt "meh" about the whole thing.
All of that said, there's an amazing ending fight scene and I was amped to see where those developments brought us. I don't think it was worth reading all the way through the book for it. I might suggest skimming until this part or even just reading the last few chapters. Nothing really important happens in most of the book and I feel like most readers could just read the last chapters and lose little extra context.