Iris's Reviews > The Fragile Threads of Power

it was absolutely wild being back in this world with these characters after so many years, and i'm still sort of processing because i listened to the last like eight hours of this over the last two days, but! i enjoyed this very much! i really like some of the new characters, and am quite intrigued by others, and of course it was also nice to see so many old favourites again. i'd say this was a nice blend of old and new, bringing in lots of new characters and settings and plotlines, while also keeping so much of what made me love the first series

there was definitely A Lot in this book, but i never felt bored or like the plot was dragging, even when it wasn't actually really moving anywhere, so i guess it worked? i think if i didn't love v.e. schwab's writing so much, i might have gotten impatient with all the flashbacks and meandering paths in this book, but honestly they were often the parts i enjoyed the most, and i always came away from them feeling like they'd added something important to the story

i'm still trying to fully gather my thoughts, and honestly i think i'm not going to fully have anything coherent to say until the rest of the series is out, but i definitely thoroughly enjoyed every second of this