Shadowsong (Wintersong #2) by S. Jae-Jones

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A dark and maddening conclusion to the Wintersong duology. This book is very different from the previous one. Leisl is on a journey of finding who she is and dealing with the loss of her love. She promised to go on in life but has to figure out how to do that. Her brother sends word for her to come to Vienna where he is pursuing his musical career but this letter is unlike him. Yet she and her family do leave to join him and nothing is what they expected.

This story deals heavily with mental illness and the many cycles it can have. The author herself states her experience with this and why she wrote this book so darkly. I ached for Leisl as she tries to solve her own mysteries and convince herself she really experienced the events of Wintersong and that she isn't crazy. When reading both Shadowsong and Wintersong I felt like they belonged to the new adult genre more than the young adult one because of the content.

If you deal with depression I would go into this book understanding that most of it is very sad. If you are like me, the mood of a book can flow into the day. I'm not saying not to read this book, the conclusion was beautiful- just to be careful.

I was given this ARC by NetGalley and the publisher for a fair and honest review.

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