Ace of Shades (The Shadow Game Series #1) by Amanda Foody
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Perfect for Six of Crows fans!
This is one of my favorite books! I wish more people knew about it!!!!
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Great Fantasy Series
I loved reading Ace of Shades and am very excited to read the rest of The Shadow Game. Enne goes to look for her adopted mother in the CIty of Sin New Reynes. Enne has been brought up in polite society and she needs help if she must navigate this new world. Here to help is Levi, the head of one of the minor gangs. As they traverse the city which runs on a currency called volts, the two become entrapped with the most secretive game of the city, The Shadow Game. I was instantly attracted to both characters. They were not one-dimensional and you good see teh good and bad in each character. I loved teh world Foody has created. New Reynes is a labyrinth of casinos, forbidden markets, and a variety of hideouts for its citizens. Also enrapturing is the culture of the world. Each person is born with a blood talent and a split talent. These decide your job and your place in society. They also lent you your name. Enne is a Salta a minor dancer who most people overlook. But sometimes a name isn't what it seems. I recommend this series for an enjoyable ride that slips you out of your reality and into another. This is a great escape with a mostly solid story. I received an ARC through NetGalley; all opinions are my own.
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love love love
The way Amanda is able to create this magical story is incredible! This is such a good read along with the other books I highly recommend!
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Perfect for readers who also enjoyed Six of Crows
I read this as an e-book last year and I still think about it often. The extended cast of characters, combined with twisty politics and dramatic games, set in a world reminiscent of Peaky Blinders and Caraval, made for an incredibly dark, and whimsical tale about found family. 10/10 would read again.
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Perfect for Six of Crows fans!
100% worth the read! I wish more people knew about this series
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I love this book
Ignore me, I’m just putting up some short reviews from a while ago! Oh. My. God. First of all, I loved how dark this book was. The entire story just gave off a mysterious and ambiguous feeling that I was captured and enthralled by. All of the characters were either likable or understandable, the world was so incredible. Levi and Enne are wonderful, as are all of the side characters. I've seen this compared to Six of Crows a lot and while the most similar aspect is the involvement of gangs, I do think they give off the same vibe. I don't really have a lot to say, which I think is a good thing in this case. I love all of the relationships between the characters, romantic or otherwise.
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Amazing YA series starter!
I read this back in 2018 and thoroughly enjoyed everything about this! If you loved Foody’s prior novel, Daughter of the Burning City, you’ll definitely enjoy this one as well!
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Absolutely loved it!
- more reviews on Me and Books blog - Hi everyone, First of all, I cannot forget to thank Harlequin Teen US for sending me a physical Advanced Reader Copy for a review. When Amanda Foody’s first book came out, Daughter of the Burning City, I had been attracted a lot by the cover, but I never had time to read because as you know I always give priority to the review copies. I wasn’t expecting to receive this ARC of Ace of Shades, I send so many requests for arc that I had lost hope, but when I saw this book at home I could not stop thinking about the fact that I should read it as soon as possible and so, as soon as I had time, I jumped into this exhilarating reading. I would never have believed that Amanda Foody was such a talented writer, even after the first 50 pages I decided that she would absolutely be part of the top three of my TOP 10. Levi and Enne, the two main characters, are so mysterious, but we’ll start to get to know them as they start to get to know each other. Enne went to the city of sin to find her mother. A letter from the latter invites her to find Levi Glaiser, Lord of the Irons. He knew Lourdes, he’d been helped by her four years ago, and even if he now believes she’s dead, he decides to help Enne because he needs the money the girl wants to give him as a reward to pay off a debt that could lead him to death. From here begins their extraordinary adventure throughout New Reynes looking for Lourdes. A lot of things will happen to Enne. She will receive the Omerta, an unbreakable oath, she will discover she is not who she believed, she will find out that her adoptive mother had lied to her all her life, and if she died she could not explain why she did it, and Enne will also discover the existence of a certain Shadow Game, who had killed her biological mother and perhaps even Lourdes. Enne in her stay in New Reynes will totally change. She will not lose her habits as a well-educated girl who follows the label, but will change her way of acting and thinking, making friends in a city where it is better to have allies and not friends. The only thing that I really regret is that, despite the approach between Levi and Enne, with consequent my great ship for them, nothing happens at the end of the book, not even that fateful kiss in which I hoped a lot. But this book has literally captured my heart as only the books Clare’s and Maas’s can do. Amanda deserves the best, and I hope for her that something happens between Levi and Enne in the second book, otherwise I think there will be a revolution in the whole world.
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