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A review by bargainbinkazbrekker
The Fragile Threads of Power by V.E. Schwab
2.75
*2.75/5
honestly, I really wish that Schwab had spent less time with the original cast of characters and more with the new ones. I think the OG's could've shown up every now and then but spending entire sections of the book with them where sometimes they're not really doing anything of substance? I was growing to dread those sections/chapters. I really liked the unnamed thief and I wanted to know more about Tes and spend more time with her but this whole books was so overly saturated with Kell, Lila, Alucard, and Rhy-- characters mind you I enjoyed in the original trilogy but if I wanted to read about them again, I could just reread that trilogy! The shades of magic world has such opportunity for rich and beautiful expansion and new characters, yet I feel as though I received none of it. I don't know, I'm rather disappointed by this one. I really wanted more fresh and new things in this world.
honestly, I really wish that Schwab had spent less time with the original cast of characters and more with the new ones. I think the OG's could've shown up every now and then but spending entire sections of the book with them where sometimes they're not really doing anything of substance? I was growing to dread those sections/chapters. I really liked the unnamed thief and I wanted to know more about Tes and spend more time with her but this whole books was so overly saturated with Kell, Lila, Alucard, and Rhy-- characters mind you I enjoyed in the original trilogy but if I wanted to read about them again, I could just reread that trilogy! The shades of magic world has such opportunity for rich and beautiful expansion and new characters, yet I feel as though I received none of it. I don't know, I'm rather disappointed by this one. I really wanted more fresh and new things in this world.