Ace of Shades by Amanda Foody
Welcome to the City of Sin
Where casino families reign.
Gangs infest the streets…
and secrets hide in every shadow.
I still need a moment to process the end of this books……………………………………………………..
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Okay, now I’m ready to talk about it – or at least I think so.
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.
To the next time,
