Shadow Scale: A Companion to Seraphina
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780385668606 (0385668600)
Publish date: April 7th 2014
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
Series: Seraphina (#2)
Seraphina was one of my favorite books of 2013, so I was really, really excited about this one. I started it immediately. And it took me 8 months to finish it. It is fine, but I have to be honest - it dragged. It was overlong, and meandering, and occasionally felt like it was going no where. And...
Oh dear, I don’t know what to say here… Because I loved the first book and I almost didn’t finish this one. So yeah, I’m disappointed… It was just so boring. Seraphina leaves the castle to find other half-dragons. She meets new half-dragon, there’s drama, she meets another one, there’s more drama an...
I liked this one, but I missed the intimate scale of Seraphina.
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At the end of this book, the author writes, "This book was a beast to write." I can believe it. I have waited YEARS for this book having fallen in love with Seraphina more than seven years ago. Shadow Scale may have been a beast to write, but it was a glorious beauty to read. I always say that ther...