5⭐️

Thanks to NetGalley and Pan Macmillan for this eArc.

Characters: 5/5
Setting: 5/5
Plot: 5/5
Themes: 5/5
Emotional: 5/5
Enjoyment: 5/5

This book was everything I wanted it to be. As someone who liked Addie Larue, but didn’t love it, I was a little worried that another character driven book by V.E. Schwab wouldn’t grab me, but I absolutely devoured this and loved every second of it.

The characters are so well written and thought out, and I absolutely loved each one (I mean… I also loved to hate a certain character…) I thought the prose was just fantastic and it kept me hooked every time I picked up my Kindle, and the way each characters individual stories intertwined with each other was just absolutely brilliant. I did think the ending was a little abrupt, but that may just be because I was so immersed in the story I never wanted it to end!

I felt so many emotions whilst reading, particularly anger and sorrow and I just have to give props to Schwab for being able to illicit such strong emotions from me as usually when I read I don’t tend to feel so strongly but there’s just something about her writing that brings out all the emotions in me!

I thoroughly enjoyed the book, and would recommend to absolutely everyone. V. E. Schwab has been my favourite author for a while now and I will read anything she writes, whether that be a novel or the phone book!