Lady of Darkness (Lady of Darkness Series Book 1)

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Nuri was right about her being coddled by all the men in her life, everyone of them falling head over heels in love with her. I’ve read the complete Lady of Darkness series so my review for this first book is really also a review of the whole series. There is really only one word to describe this book and the series - Perfection. I loved everything about this series from the unique characters and intriguing world to the expertly crafted plot. Every plot detail in each book has significance to the storyline in the later books so you will need to pay attention. I highly recommend this series. You will not be able to put any of the books down. Lady of Shadows” is the second novel in the “Lady of Darkness” series and was released in 2021. Show me your darkness, and she’ll show you hers. The shadows are calling, and the stars are fading. The darkness threatens it all. This book was amazing! Our heroine is one vicious criminal who is trying to find who killed her mother. Unfortunately, in the process of doing so, she loses someone really important to her which makes her retreat into herself. Then a new lead appears and she decides to be done with it once and for all but all is not as it should be.

I did a mix on audio & kindle for this book, & I did notice quite a few continuity errors which would be easy fixes. I found the major plot points pretty predictable (but this could be me feeling saturated in this genre, as I’m finding this with NA Romantasy books as a whole) She is literally the most insufferable main character from the start of the first book. I was just hoping forA mystery. However once the kids start vanishing from her home, all of her plans are put on hold while she races to save the most innocent. With the help of a jilted lover, her old friends, and one mysterious newcomer that claims the magic of the Fae is possible in the mortal lands, Scarlett delves deeper into the darkest corners of the world. Some forgotten secrets are also going to come to light, and she’ll discover the darkness extends well beyond her own kingdom.

Besides story being weak and shallow there is literally not much i can say about it without spoiling the whole book but yeah, weak, plain, simple. Let me start by saying even though I’ve given this 3.5⭐️ the story was still enjoyable and the series has so much potential. Im just hoping it’s up from here. I will be continuing to book 2 And honestly harlow was just too much. Her “clit throbbed” (thats from the book) for anything and everything. She can come 5 times in 15 minutes apparently. Her pus*y is like waterfalls 24/7. She can take anything and everything (even,khm, gun in her vagina….) and she was just this wild sex crazed kinky person but she didnt know it till she met them. Mind you she is like this while being on some hardcore anxiety pills. I am not a doctor but as a person who suffered from certain things and consumed certain medication….this just doesnt sit right with me. It was just so far from reality that after her 10th squirt in one chapter i was like “what kind of human is she?? Am i the anormal one here??” And that sense of fakeness just ruined the smut part for me as well after some time.. I had a funny feeling it would be too hard to live up to the first book’s expectations and alas, I was right. Then at the end idk she has a literal psychotic break because Sorin has not had the chance to tell her every single thing about his past. If she trusts him so much she won't kill him, give the man the damn chance to explains things in time without the dramatics.

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This duet is definitely one of the best I’ve read this year. The undying loyalty, protectiveness, and honor this group of individuals has was incredible. While they were dark, their work was important and necessary. Thirdly, she is like such a special snowflake because she's beautiful, she fights like a badass Sarah J maas mc, and she has all these bois lining up to snog her. Not just Callan or Sorin, but also Cassius and Mikail! Wow........ o.O Unbelievable and honestly frustrating because love squares I prefer to leave those in the past....

With all of that said, i’m too far invested in this series to stop now so I will be continuing because overall, it really is a great story. Although I love Conjure Wife more, I think this just might be Leiber's best novel of terror. It displays many intriguing elements: a candid self-portrait for its protagonist (aging widower and novelist of the supernatural “Franz Westen,” a recovering alcoholic afraid of commitment), an evocative mid-70's San Francisco setting so detailed and precise that walking tours have been based on it, affectionate homages to both the traditional English ghost story and Weird Tales (a specter which evokes M.R. James' “Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad,” a journal supposedly written by Clark Ashton Smith, and some Lovecraftian speculations concerning geometry), an informed and effective use of Jungian psychology, and—the final element that ties them all together so effectively—the pseudo-science of “megapolisomancy." If I were to get too critical about Lady of Shadows, I could find a hundred things that are average and/or bad. The characters too are so unmistakably denizens of the pre-high tech Bay. The fey harpsichordist girlfriend; the co-tenants of ambiguous gender; the Peruvian concierge and her Americanised daughter; the lugubrious guru of occult wisdom; the autobiographical protagonist/writer himself are all distinctly of the place. Only the latter is consciously aware of it, but all are obsessed with its history, its topography, and its urban legends. They each come from somewhere else but have been entirely captivated and absorbed by its atmosphere of inherent strangeness. They do after all inhabit a crossroads between the dry, hot mission-country of the South and the cold, wet forests of the North. They sit on the Rim and on the Fault which act as a collection point for the entire Pacific. Humanity which is Ill-attached elsewhere slides or floats there - into a sort of enchanted sump.Here we have a daughter of some dark lord (she doesnt know that yet), who comes to england for her fathers funeral and gets jumped in her room by 4 handsome, crazy attactive men (who are in their 30s and she is fresh out of high school ,18, not that im bothered but kinda kills the vibe for me cuz i wanted mature characters) who are lords of darkness and are ruling the world from underground practically (drugs, arms dealing, assasinations whatever you can imagine honestly idk) and now she has to fill her fathers place. And there is no arguing about it. My feelings/non-spoilery thoughts for the series and not just book one because I can’t separate them: I thought, though slow, it moved forward in a very natural way. The pacing really gives room for us to feel deeply for the characters which I loved. A woman who is a lady by day and assassin by night. Scarlet is under everyone's control but her own. She is tasked with a mission, the reward are the answers she's been wanting her whole life. Before she can complete her task, the children of the city start going missing. With the help of the new captain of the guard 😏, they must work together to find them. But I'm left with two feelings that have little to do with the book's main themes. The first is my envy of the main character's daily routine (until it's interrupted by occult forces, that is): wake up in the morning and make coffee; work on short stories for publications with names like Weird Underground in accordance with your occupation as freelance writer of all manner of unconventional fiction; take a long hike through the hills of San Francisco; maintain an affair with a beautiful and intelligent harpsichordist who lives on the fourth floor of your apartment building; eat at a German restaurant with friends; play a couple of nearly silent games of chess in the evening with an acquaintance in the building with whom you don't share a language; then go to sleep and do it all again.

This is good fun. In 1970s San Francisco, a middle-aged recovering alcoholic and writer of science-fiction/fantasy stories is drawn into a mystery involving a decades-old book called Megapolisomancy (in which the author, the fictional T. de Castries, suggests that the accumulation of steel, concrete, electricity and other elements in large modern cities, combined with certain geometrical realities related to buildings and the layouts of streets, may serve the incubation of occult forces) and the San Francisco-based writers (George Sterling, Amrbose Bierce, Clark Ashton Smith and Nora May French among them) de Castries tried to recruit as acolytes, a few of whom later died, perhaps, under questionable circumstances. My changing feelings the entire time I read this book : I love it. I hate it. It's great. It's atrocious. The pace is fantastic. It's so slow, nothing is happening. Scarlett is a queen. Scarlett is the most annoying FMC. I never want this to end. Thank God it's over. I need the next one immediately. I don't want to continue this torture. She's really snarky, doesn't think when she's speaking and says what she needs to say, whether it will hurt you or not.

All of a sudden this strong character falls apart. She is whining and demanding secrets from people that they can't give, yet will not tell any of her secrets or explain herself. She is hooking up with other characters and wonders why the H doesn't want to tell her everything. Scarlett was raised by a cruel Assassin Lord and has been trained to kill and torture. After a mission gone wrong results in the death of one of her sisters, she refuses to cooperate with her Master and is sequestered in a local Lord’s house until she falls in line. When the Assassin Lord offers her long coveted information in exchange for her compliance with his demands, she must make a choice whether to kill for him again or be forced into obedience through a different kind of torture. Life becomes even more complicated when the General of the king’s army offers his help in solving a mystery involving innocent children and she can’t decide whether or not to trust him. With the worst of choices before her, Scarlett feels the darkness overwhelming everything and when even more mysteries come to light she must choose to hope when it feels like everything is lost. Sure, there is a crown prince and they exhange/talking about books together! 📚 Ahhhh my fave Dorian/Celaena romance here. BUT She use him! Fool the prince to love her so she can get the information from him. Ahhhh my fave is ruined here. *reduce my fun, thanks*