Full review on my blog here on 04/12/19!

"There is nothing stronger than people who endure the worst hardships in the world, and still raise their fists at the start of a new day to fight all over again."

I didn't like Girls of Storm and Shadow as much as I loved
Paper and Fire. I raced through Paper and Fire in one sitting, but some of my
favourite aspects of the first novel were missing from the second. Frustratingly,
I couldn’t define exactly what that is. It’s taken me over two months to get
this review written, because I’m really struggling to verbalise how I feel
about this follow up to a book I adored.

Despite that, this was still a good book, with a more complex plot than the previous series entry and fascinating insights into the political world, and I settled on a 3 star rating. As a rule, I’m a huge fan of series becoming more politically complex and multi-faceted in later books. The Hunger Games series is a typical example of this. But for me, unfortunately, it felt like there was something absent from this book for me. I still enjoyed it, and I’ll still definitely read the currently untitled third book when it comes out (probably 2020), but it might be a library pick up for me rather than an automatic pre-order.

Trigger Warnings: Kidnapping, sex trafficking, sexual assault, rape, violence, sex shaming, violence against animals, caste discrimination and racism, raids and mass murder. This is a heavy one again guys.