Review – A Gathering of Shadows

There is no worse literary disease than the cursedmiddle-book syndrome,and unfortunatelyA Gathering of Shadows,sequel toA Darker Shade of Magic,is a terminal patient. The second book in theShades of Magictrilogy is five-hundred-pages of slow exposition that funnels the reader into the third book – an entertaining distraction, but nothing particularly memorable. In December, I read and [...]