Reign of Shadows by Sophie Jordan

Presenting, the fabulous co-written review of Reign of Shadows, done with my bookish-soulsister and eternal Kazlingsppey

I was quite excited for this book. And I had quite a fun time reading it with Linnea. So, we decided to write a review together. Down below are my stats then her review. If you go to her blog, you can see her stats and stuff and then my review. Fun, right? Go visit her at R E A C H

Genre:  Fantasy

Feelings: Naw

Cuteness: KISSING

Fast pacing: Not quite, but it was small enough that I didn’t notice

Series: Evidently yes

Read if you like: Rapunzel retellings. Creepy bats that may or may not eat people

Content: Some aggressive kissy action. A bit of violence? Nothing graphic enough for me to remember.

Trigger warning? Nothing I can recall 

In summary...She’s stuck in a tower. He’s grumpy. They get stuck in the woods. Things happen. It’s intense.

Thoughts: Pine needles.

Rating: 3.5/5 stars

And here's Linnea's review. Check out her blog to see mine! 

This book is quite the wild ride. There are bats that are large, but supposedly do not eat humans. There are Dwellers. There are super-hot men. There’s a completely bad ass female lead that is somehow not annoying to me, the Biggest Critiquer of Female Leads.

In short, this book kind of rocked. While I couldn’t quite take the entire thing in one sitting, it went down easy and then kind of left me with a hangover. I wasn’t expecting a cliffhanger ending and then all of a sudden–I got one.

Which was unsettling, considering I was hoping for a standalone, but useful, because a mere two-hundred and ninety-two pages wasn’t long enough for me to appreciate the full scope of these characters.

Fowler is Tall, Dark-humored, and Handsome. What’s not to like?

This book seemed a bit like that friend that, at 3 AM, is at their most delighted with the world, and will do just about anything they please. It’s fun to watch, participate in in small amounts, and also put to sleep  before too long…and then repeat the whole endeavor the next night.

Which is to say: I am so glad I read this book with a friend, and I can’t wait to do it with the sequel.