Title: A Sky Full of Stars
Author: Kristen Painter
Series: Shadowvale #7
Pages: 340
Lexi Gardner has come to Shadowvale because her magic is running low and she needs the impending magical event to refill it. But when she comes across a man who is trapped within a tree she finds herself willing to risk the last of her magic to rescue him but he has to help her in turn. But Edgar wasn’t the only one in Shadowvale who ended up needing her help and Lexi soon finds herself risking all her magic to help the town.
This was an interesting Shadowvale novel. Lexi is a sylph who should have unlimited magic to but has used too much helping people and now needs a magical meteor to replenish her abilities or risks becoming human. Lexi was an interesting character because we have never seen a being like her before and in theory she should be able to do anything, but she can’t. She struggles with her loss of magic and eventually realizes that it wouldn’t be so bad being human if she got to spend it with Eddie.
When I initially picked this up I didn’t realize that the man trapped in the tree was going to be Edgar Hyde, but I should have after Henry was so distraught over trapping him in the tree to begin with in the previous book. Edgar is a changed man now. He no longer is a rage filled beast but instead is focused on making a life for himself in Shadowvale and helping Lexi. I really liked seeing Edgar and Henry reunite and are now like actual brothers.
Edgar and Lexi’s relationship was a bit disappointing for me. While close proximity is usually a trope I really enjoy, these two didn’t really have any romance between them before they were saying ‘I love you’. They spend the majority of their time trying to find magic to fix each other and we never really get any real conversations about feelings or their future until a while after they have said they love each other. A lot of their relationship felt more for convenience than for actual feelings and I think that is why Is struggled more with the romance with this one than all the previous Shadowvale books.
While the romance was lacking for me, this book does provide some answers to questions that have been left hanging from previous books. We learn more about the book in the woods, Pasquel’s disappearance, and more about the magic of Shadowvale. Shadowvale continues to be a unique town with unique characters that I want to know more about, and after this book I do wonder how things will change in Shadowvale.
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