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The Ballad of Never After
by Stephanie Garber
adventurous
fast-paced
Book two in a trilogy I’m loving. A very Vampire Diaries-eqsue OTT teen drama fantasy. It’s stupid. It’s chaotic. It’s More is More. And I love that.
And, on the Not-Middle Book Syndrome-y Scale™️? She gets a 10. A remarkably un-middle book syndrome story. We introduced plot stuff and my jaded-by-trilogies butt just thought “uh huh, none of this will get resolved until book three…” but no! We just barrelled ahead and this ended up being an exciting, fast-paced book.
I read it in a day. Very unputdownable.
But, there was one but. Our heroine, so dumb in the first book that she was basically an unreliable narrator, was wising up in this book: growing into her powers and learning from her (very dumb) mistakes. Character growth (and honestly, for most readers, this growth will be much appreciated). But I missed our dumb-as-bricks FMC from book one!
And, on the Not-Middle Book Syndrome-y Scale™️? She gets a 10. A remarkably un-middle book syndrome story. We introduced plot stuff and my jaded-by-trilogies butt just thought “uh huh, none of this will get resolved until book three…” but no! We just barrelled ahead and this ended up being an exciting, fast-paced book.
I read it in a day. Very unputdownable.
But, there was one but. Our heroine, so dumb in the first book that she was basically an unreliable narrator, was wising up in this book: growing into her powers and learning from her (very dumb) mistakes. Character growth (and honestly, for most readers, this growth will be much appreciated). But I missed our dumb-as-bricks FMC from book one!