Wednesday 14 September 2016

The Shadow Hour

The Shadow Hour (The Girl at Midnight, #2)

The Shadow Hour by Melissa Grey is the second book of her Girl at Midnight series.

A battle has been won. But the war has only just begun.

Everything in Echo’s life changed in a blinding flash when she learned the startling truth: she is the firebird, the creature of light that is said to bring peace.

The firebird has come into the world, but it has not come alone. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, and Echo can feel a great and terrible darkness rising in the distance. Cosmic forces threaten to tear the world apart.

Echo has already lost her home, her family, and her boyfriend. Now, as the firebird, her path is filled with even greater dangers than the ones she’s already overcome.

She knows the Dragon Prince will not fall without a fight.

Echo must decide: can she wield the power of her true nature—or will it prove too strong for her, and burn what’s left of her world to the ground?

Welcome to the shadow hour.

The Breakdown:
1.  In the first book, Grey was a little more focused on the world building and the search of the firebird.  I felt this book was more about furthering the development of the characters.  Delves deeper in the the characters, especially those of Echo and Jasper, and interesting enough, Tanith, in this book.

2.  I really liked the development of the firebird, and that the firebird is not a lone entity. I loved the concept that along with the firebirds light, comes a darkness.  It presents an interesting challenge for Echo, and makes sense with the concept that the universe needs balance.

3. Real talk: as much as I loved Echo, Caius and Rowan in the mountain scenes, I think the biggest scene steal belongs to Ivy when she stands up to Tanith. Ivy shows amazing growth and bravery in that scene, and I just wanted to yell "You Go Girl" at her then.

4. I was not a Tanith fan in the first book, but the things she does for power, really makes me love to hate her. Grey not only shows what she did to oust Caius for Dragon Prince, but the lengths Tanith goes to obtain even more power are frightening. She is one scary lady.

To Read or Not to Read:
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