Lila’s relationships with Kell, Alucard, the crew, Barron, and Calla. Alucard’s relationships with Rhy, his family (which we see more of in this book), his crew, and with Lila. Rhy’s relationships with his parents, Kell, and Alucard.

Kell’s relationships with Lila, Rhy, Alucard, and his parents.

The relationships, because that’s what this book is really about.

I adore Kell and Lila, Rhy and Alucard, and even Holland by the end of the book. But of course, it comes back to the main players time and again. I love them all even as they break my heart over and over again. Even the side characters that don’t seem all that important. This should be a big “duh” after the reviews I wrote for the series so far. Red London is under attack by Osaron, the entity Holland brought back from Black London, and it will take sacrifices from everyone to defeat him. The stakes are high through this whole book, which is no small feat when you consider that it’s 624 pages long. As a reader I’m not sure I agree with that, since I’ve read plenty of books that were fast-paced and gripping for the first ten pages or so and then slows down and sets the stage afterward.īut Schwab doesn’t do that here. I’ve been taught over the years that the first chapter sets the tone for your book, that whatever happens in chapter one is what your readers will expect from the rest of the book.

Nearly killing all of your characters is one way to start the last book in a series. The first thirty pages of the book is at a breakneck speed where stakes are high and my heart pounded in my chest with fear for all my favorite characters. In this book all the major players get POV chapters Kell, Lila, Rhy, Alucard, Holland, and Osaron. Each POV gets an “intro” chapter of sorts and each of them ends in a cliffhanger that made me bite my nails and yell at the book. This book picks up directly after the end of A Gathering of Shadows, and lemme tell ya, shit has hit the fan. If you haven’t had the chance to read my reviews for the first two books, now would be a good time to do that.

A conjuring of light by ve schwab