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I have bookstore gift cards from Hanukkah, and they’re burning holes in my pocket. The laser they’re using was on its highest setting yesterday, so I went nosing around the YA fantasy shelves for something new to read. To my bemused delight, I found that the next Wicked Lovely book had somehow been published without my being aware.

Ani has been growing stronger since Iriel left the Dark throne and her father returned, becoming more fae and less human by the day. As her power grows, hungers awaken within her, hungers she shouldn’t have, for touch, and for the dark emotions on which the Dark Court feeds. With the Dark Court weakening without the Ink Exchanges, Ani’s new power could help save her court. When Devlin, the High Faery court’s enforcer travels to the mortal world with orders to kill her, and Bananach, the embodiment of war and chaos offers her a deal for her life, Ani must take Devlin’s help if the Dark Court is to survive at all. And when Sorcha, the Unchanging Queen begins to change, Ani’s twin hungers and new powers, and Devlin’s faltering loyalties may be the only thing able to save Faery.

( Ani had gone to the Dark King’s home knowing it would be another painful experience- and not the fun kind of pain. )

All told, Radiant Shadows is the best kind of second to last book in a series, the kind that makes me crave the finale, makes me want to turn time forward so that I could read it right now.

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