Tome Topple Readathon discussion

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Anyone else reading this one? I think it's going to be the first that I pick up.

I'll be honest, my feelings toward A Darker Shade of Magic have grown somewhat tepid since I read it, so we'll see how this goes!

This wasn't on my original TBR for this readathon... But I picked it up, so now I want to finish it. :)

Hi, so I finished this back before Thanksgiving, but got busy and forgot to come back here to discuss!

This book was kind of outrageous, and I'm kind of angry at it for being so outrageous. When I take a step back and look at it objectively, I can't take much that happened too seriously... but I also kind of loved it?

It feels like the Essen Tasch, which is the main focus of the plot in this book, isn't going to have much relevance going forward, and was just there to create crowd-pleasing shenanigans as Schwab strings us along dropping tantalizing bits of character development and withholding anticipated events for as long as physically possible.

But... I was generally happy to let myself be strung along, and the cliffhanger made me more excited for the third book than I was for this one, so... yay?

I need to read A Darker Shade of Magic first but I'm kind of hoping to binge read the series next month! We'll see

I'm planning on reading this one :)

I'm planning on reading during the readathon

Yay Thea! We can talk about it here :)

Jenn. I saw your book tube video and I planned on doing the same thing. Reading the first one before the readathon and then binging the second and third one. I'm just hoping the copy of the first one comes into the library on time so I can.

Starting this morning. Can't not wait to dive into it. Just finished A Darker Shade last night and am very curious where the story goes from there.

I try to finish this one as i am reading it for several month now. I am not making a lot of progress as i only read on my kindle when i have some spare time and no other book with me. I hope that is the reason why i have problems to get connected with the characters. so i will try to read more of this in a row and hopefully this will make a change for me.

I've started A Gathering of Shadows, I'm on page 90 right now. So far, I'm loving it, but I loved Lila's POV more than Kell's. I think Lila really makes these books! Plus, anything with pirates and the seas I'm in the mood for right now!