After giving glowing reviews to several other books by Victoria (V.E.) Schwab, multiple people have recommended her “Monsters of Verity” series. I recently picked up This Savage Song as a treat to celebrate the 25th birthday of my favorite independent bookstore. Considering how much I’ve enjoyed every other book by Schwab, I should have known better and gotten the second book in the duology, Our Dark Duet right away instead of foolishly only getting book one. I had the great pleasure of seeing Victoria Schwab’s panel at Wonder […]
Schwab sticks the landing (mostly)
3.5 stars. It’s always a bit scary heading into the final book of a beloved series. Will things wrap up satisfactorily? Will my favorite characters die? Will I be able to read it again and still love it? Ideally you want it to be the best book in the series, but just not ruining the series will usually suffice. That was kind of my feeling with this one. Although I didn’t love it as much as the first two books, it was still a satisfying […]
Pirates, Magic, & Knife Wielding Bisexuals
4.5 stars. In general, I’m not someone who rereads books. There are just SO many good books out there waiting to be read that I have a hard time going back. Even if it was a book I liked, there’s always the fear that I might not like it as much the second time. I want to keep my memory of that book pristine. The problem is, instead of remembering plots and characters, I tend to remember how I felt about a book and that […]
This was supposed to be emotionally wrecking
I saw a lot of social media responses to this, but thankfully no spoilers, before I got around to reading it myself. Many of the responses involved some expression of devastating emotional impact upon finishing this book. I don’t see it. Our Dark Duet is not a happy book, and the ending really fits with the tone of the story overall, but I just don’t see the devastating crushing heartbreak that was described by lots of people of Facebook, Twitter, etc. My biggest problem is […]