All hail rebellions in Jennifer Gruenke's Of Silver and Shadow. How is it possible for there to be rebellions, yet none of the named characters die on the rebellion side? That is what happens in this novel and in many stories, I have read that involve rebellions. Why is that? Shouldn't there be thousands of deaths in a war?
I feel in love with all of the characters, and each had their own unique personality. Although I had a hard time picturing them because their descriptions would change like they would be black and then white, then another skin color.
I will admit it took me a long time to catch onto the love interest, but when I did it was like okay, what made me so resistant in the first place? My only other issue with the book is that it took too long. It did not need fifty chapters and could have been done in maybe thirty if they took out all the repetitive things.
The first half of the book repeated itself a lot, and I found myself being like, okay, we get it. Can we please move on. Some of the twists took me by surprise like the fact that the whole royal family is not magical (I won't say who it is though and why the person is not magic because that leads to the biggest twist of all. If you want to find out you will have to grab a copy for yourself and read).
The prince that wanted nothing to do with his family was my favorite character, and I hope that if there is a second book, there is more of him in it because he was the thing that made me keep reading, especially since he was so clueless on some items.
4 out of 5 stars
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