Name: Shadow Study
Rating: 4.097560975609756 (41 reviews)
ISBN: 9780778317401

Maria V. Snyder

As Yelena searches for the person whose poisoned arrow stripped her of her magic, Valek finds his job and life in danger as he attempts to broker peace in Ixia.

Shadow Study

Lack of communication troupe went to far. Ugh so annoying, we had the information each character needed from three different perspectives, it could have been shorter without this.

Mabel Palomera

Madelynn snobl

3.75/5 

Great continuation of the story, it took me a while to catch on for the 6-8 year jump. But otherwise, I couldn't put it down !

Laura Kehoe

Originally published on The Book Unicorn

After Fire Study ended, I found myself seriously missing Yelena and the rest of the gang. So, it was such a happy surprise when I realized there were more books in this series. I have really enjoyed Maria V Snyder's books and Yelena is such a fantastic character. As you can imagine, I was pretty eager to read Shadow Study.

That being said, this book was a bit disappointing. The story was pretty good, although a little on the slow side. And the plot didn't seem to flow particularly well, especially with the flashbacks. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed what I learned in the flashbacks, but they seemed to have been put in rather randomly and didn't mesh well with the rest of the story. 

But, the characters were great as usual. I loved getting to see all of my favorites again and meeting some fascinating new ones. I could see some great character development and I'm still so invested in their lives that I really need to see what happens to them.

Overall, despite some complaints, I really did enjoy this book for the most part. I already have the second book checked out from the library and will definitely be delving into it shortly! If you enjoyed the previous books in this series, I would recommend giving this one a read.

Kelly Macquire

Review originally posted on my blog here- https://kelmacsbooks.wordpress.com/20...

So I’m not going to lie, I was very hesitant to read this book and took a bit of a gamble since I really didn’t like Fire Study of Magic Study… But I bought it anyway because of the multiple points of view in the hope that I would get some background info on Valek and Janco and Ari would actually appear…. And I was pleasantly surprised!!

I read this book in about 5 days and enjoyed it immensely. I am a big fan of multiple POV’s in books as I feel it gives you so much more depth not only into the character but into the plot as well. And this time was no difference, having not only Yelena tell the story but Valek and Janco gave you three completely different characters insights and feelings to make the novel rich with info which is what I feel was lacking in the two former books.

I really loved the plot of getting rid of Yelena’s magic as it made her more self aware and a bit more interesting to read about and there is minimal whining from her which made me very happy for that was something that annoyed me immensely in the previous books.

I also got MORE VALEK!!! So much more Valek which is what I really thought was missing in both Fire and Magic Study. We got childhood backstory which was so extremely interesting and then made who he is at the present time so much clearer. And to get his POV meant we got his inner thoughts of Yelena and to just validate that even though he puts his job first; he gets second thoughts and wants to rush to Yelena because he loves her so much and god, that did something to my heart every time he was conflicted like that.

And welcome back to my comedic relief Ari and Janco!! I missed you and your banter so much! Also the addition of Onora, another badass female character made me very happy and I enjoyed her input into the plot immensely… Although the constant calling her Little Miss Assassin grated my nerves ALOT…

 

And although I totally called the ending of this, I really really enjoyed this novel and I am very happy I gave this series another chance since now I am extremely excited to read the next one (especially because of how this one ended).

So if you were like me and were pretty let down with Fire and/or Magic Study and don’t know whether they should pick this one up, I suggest you should! You get more Yelena and Valek and you get more baddass fighting scenes and so much more Janco and Ari!!

Giulia 

3.5 🌟

#stayhomereading - reading rush

Yelena e Valek sono stupendi 💚 
Non pensavo che questi personaggi mi avrebbero fatto lo stesso effetto di quanto ho letto il primo libro della serie (una delle prime letture in inglese, che ricordi 🥺), eppure così è stato. Dopo tanti anni Valek è rimasto un gran assassino figo e lui e Yelena sono troppo bellini 🥰
La trama è stata leggermente piatta, ma divertente e senza dei reali momenti morti. Negli ultimi capitoli si è ripreso un sacco, soprattutto nel finale. (view spoiler)[ baby Valek 💚💚💚 (hide spoiler)]

Also... abbiamo i pov di Valek! *_*

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