“The Shadow Society,” OR “‘Edgy’ Teen Discovers She’s A Wannabe Goth with Supernatural Powers”. FEATURING: bland writing, cliched characters, and all things unoriginal!

to read later

well I enjoyed it.

You had me at alternate-history Chicago. Plus great characters and fascinating world building! More than enough to forgive a couple skeptical plot twists. Full review forthcoming at www.Slatebreakers.com

This book was pretty awesome.

~3.5 stars. I found this to be an entertaining read, but not of the same caliber as Rutkoski's Winner's Trilogy (which is not too surprising, considering this book was written before that series). The plotting in the Winner's Trilogy is more clever, and there's a lot more complexity in the political maneuvring. It's also darker and more mature than this book. Nevertheless, I liked the protagonist Darcy and her hot-cold relationship with Conn, and the whole notion of these two parallel universes based off of one historical event. There are definitely some questions around worldbuilding that never get answered (where did Shades come from in the first place, for one), but that didn't bother me a whole lot.

Great book.

I really enjoyed this book! It definitely wasn't perfect and dragged at some points, but overall I really really liked it. Conn & Darcy are really great characters and I loved seeing all the characters grow & change in this book. Also such an interesting concept for a book! SO GUHD.

The premise of this book sounded really cool, but it turned out to be pretty different than what I was expecting it to be. There were a lot of cliche YA tropes in it that I just didn't enjoy, but I still think it had some potential.

Why isn't there a sequel??? What happened to that little creep Orion?