A review by _hijabibookgirl_
On This Unworthy Scaffold by Heidi Heilig

5.0

After devouring the first two book in less than a week, I had to wait AGES for my public library to get a hold on the third book and it drove me INSANE. I was there every day on edge waiting. I couldn't read a single other book because I was too preoccupied thinking of 50000 different endings to this trilogy. I did not expect it to go this way. The end had me in tears, I cried, I sobbed, and it wasn't those few shed tears that fall dramatically onto the paper. No, it was a whole waterfall, I simply EXPLODES. I was so attached to so many of these characters that watching their story come to an end in their own unique ways was breathtaking and heartbreaking all at once. The twists and turns made me ache. This ending.............wow. I still think about it all the time. The Shadow Player's series is not very well known, and at times it makes me happy because then, Jetta and Leo and Chakrana would be all to me and the handful of people who've read this series, but them, I get sad again, because not many people would be able to say they love them as much as I do.
If you've fallen in love with the works of Stephanie Garber and Chloe Gong, with romance and deeply thought-through world building (which happens to be Stephanie Garber's biggest strong suit here) and the idea of history and magic enterwined (Hit Chloe Gong's books up, she knows what she's doing) then...The Shadow Player's trilogy is for you.