A Gathering of Shadows

When I read the first book it was on a whim - the cover looked good, I like magic, let's try it - and I liked it. The world was fascinating but somehow it didn't grab me enough that I needed to read the second book immediately. Finding out this was available I grabbed it. This makes me want to go back and re-read the first one. Did I not truly appreciate the first book at the time? Am I an idiot? I don't know....but I loved this one.

Schwab does this great thing where she will spend hundreds of pages on a slow burn plot and you don't even care that not that much is happening because it's all so great. Lila Bard: I love you so much. Can I be you when I grow up?!

I have the third book checked out now and I need to start it ASAP.