Shadow of Night

Upon my re-read as an adult, I'm bumping this up one star.Okay, so I had to bring the rating down after a bit more thought.Here's the thing- this book suffers from some serious middle book syndrome. If I wasn't so enamored by the characters, setting, and story, I would have been bored out of my mind. Why? Well... nothing exactly happens at all in this book. Of course, I'll keep reading. Hands down still one of my favorite trilogies- this little baby just fell a little flat. But [b:The Book of Life 16054217 The Book of Life (All Souls Trilogy, #3) Deborah Harkness https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1389281784s/16054217.jpg 21839080]? Boy do I have faith in that sucker. The s*** is going to hit the fan and I couldn't be more excited!I ultimately ended up bringing this rating from 4 stars to 3 stars due to an extremely unsatisfactory character death. Like... I wasn't even sure this individual died at first. We don't get a death scene. Nope. All we get is some sympathetic “it won't get easier but you learn to live with it” speech.What the heck???? If a major character is gonna get killed off, KILL THEM OFF. Give me blood, give me dying declarations- don't give me “they ded hehe”. Disappointed but not losing faith. Deb is a queen and she'll come back from this.