Snow and the Shadows by Cara CarnesMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Not Enough Depth
I’d probably give this book 3.5 ⭐️ if I could.
I really wanted to like this book more than I did. It started with lots of promise. I really liked my initial introduction to Snow, a slave, born to another slave, who’s father was the king. Trapped on an old space ship, travelling around empty space for years at a time, with only a single caregiver and three guards. Of course, her guards trained her to fight, because what else were they going to do for years at a time floating through space.
One day their ship is boarded and everyone except her is killed. Her father and his new bride are there to make sure that she can’t access a well of power, which the Queen currently holds sole power over. Of course, Snow can, but she hides it, with the aid of seven Shadows. The Shadows are ruthless fighters from a neutral empire and Snow is surprised to find them in the employ of her step-mother. The Shadows take away Snow with orders to sell her at the slave market. Only they don’t do as they are told and in actual fact are there to rescue Snow because of her access to the Well.
This book had lots of ingredients that should have made it an excellent book. The general outline of the world-building, the magic system and the general outline of the characters and plot are all excellent until you dig down into it. I felt like this book sketched across what could have been really good, instead of layering the characters and plot with lots of interactions, they were skimmed over. This meant I didn’t really connect with the characters and the further into the book I got, the less I cared about them.
If you just look at the ingredients of this book it should have been 4-4.5 ⭐️, but when you actually read it, I can’t see it being more than 3.5 ⭐️ because there simply wasn’t enough depth to everything to make me care. I think if I hadn’t had such high hopes for this book I would have enjoyed it more, but because it didn’t fulfil the potential I am more annoyed than entertained and thus gave it a lower rating than if I’d not read any reviews and came into it cold. Part of me feels guilty for that, but not enough to give it more of a positive review, sorry Ms Carnes!
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