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A Shadow in the Ember by Jennifer L. Armentrout
3.0

JLA need to fire her editor: a TED talk.

The grammatical and punctuation errors in this published special edition copy are unforgivable. Hanging quotation marks. Missing periods. Double negatives in sentences. Modern language in a period piece.

Also, I read this book after war of two queens, and I really think to understand half of what happens in From Blood and Ash, you need to have read this. From Blood and Ash as a series is so confusing and there's so many holes in the lore that are not explained. This book did a much better job of explaining the lore, albeit it all happened through question and answer dialogue, which was a bit annoying.

I'm hanging on by a thread to continue slugging through this series. But my internal need for a satisfying conclusion keeps me trudging through.

And on to the next. And the two more that I've preordered.... Uhg.