Of Ash & Shadow by Sarah King
Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult
Publication date: 15th September 2020
PageCount: 410
TW: Violence, mention of rape, suicide, kidnapping, abuse
The Fae stole everything from Wyn. Her home. Her family. Her soul.
Now they want Her help. A murderer for hire, but this mission – kill the Shadow Queen, the boogeyman of the realm – is a suicide mission. At best! If she doesn’t say yes, they’ll steal more of the small family she’s piecemealed together since dragging her ass out of Faerie three years ago.
Guided by a vaguely familiar dark elf, Wyn must traverse the Shadow Court, a barren wasteland with toxic air populated by nightmarish creatures. Faerie warps everything it touches.
And helping them? Means giving them the last part of herself.
Her humanity.
Sarah King is the author of the YA Dark Fantasy novel Of Ash & Shadow. Sarah wrote her first book at fourteen and quickly decided it would never again see the light of day. Six (never-to-be-seen-again) books later, she wrote the first incarnation of Of Ash & Shadow during her final residency at Seton Hill University‘s Writing Popular Fiction MFA program.
A Connecticut native, Sarah currently lives in Tampa, Florida with her very understanding, listens-to-her-rave-about-the-stupidity-of-writing-a-golden-sword-into-her-book, boyfriend
and two (lovingly spastic) dogs. Dogs who she honestly talks about more than her writing.
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This review is quite late, most of my last ones are *facepalm*…. Thank you @Booktamins for giving me the chance to participate in this blog tour….And sorry for the delay
Of Ash & Shadow was an enteresting read even though I personnaly have a few things I didn’t really like. The first thing is that it was either too slow or too fast, especially during the first 200 pages or so. I found myself procracinating reading it for quite a looong time.
The other thing, which I think is related to the first one, that I didn’t like was the action scenes. I like action but not too much action, and this book has a little bit tooo much from the very first chapter! I mean, yeah, it’s exciting and all. But beginning the book that way wasn’t really welcoming, that’s what I think at least.
Apart from those things, I really enjoyed reading it. In fact, I found mysel better engaged during the second half. I liked how things ended and I would like to read the following book(s)!
Overall, it was a good book that has a brilliant story but I think that it would have been better.
librorum in sempiternum 