Reviews - Hero at the Fall

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The things I liked about this book also annoyed me but I loved it enough for 5 stars anyway. I was all about Jin and Amani through book one, for them to be separated in book 2 and not get a lot of time together in book 3.

I loved that this just wasn’t about their relationship and how Amani was growing as person and trying to be a leader but at the same time GIMME SOME MORE AMANI AND JIN!

I loved the ending, it wasn’t cliche, it was a real rebellion with everything that means. Death, love, loss and bloodshed. It was great, it was exactly what it was expected to be.

ashleyong's review against another edition

ahh the feels! one thing about this book was the fact that some heroes did die :((( but although I was really sad, I still found this refreshing and different from other tropes where none/only one of the "good guys" die. It ended up making me feel a closer connection to the other characters and what they had gone through. However, I also felt that the "storytelling" aspect could have been brought forth a little more perhaps in the first two books rather than at the end, where our main character realises how stories will never give the full picture of what happened etc so that it could be more of a recurring theme throughout the trilogy.

siareen's review against another edition

5.0

So, this book unexpectedly tore my heart out. I really enjoyed the previous books in this series, and I was excited to finally read the conclusion. But i was not prepared for just how much i would love it and how much it would break my heart. This was a phenomenal end to a great series and one of the few series that actually got better and better with each book. I am notoriously hard on conclusions to series, and i have no complaints about this. It was satisfying and sad and heartfelt and heartbreaking all at the same time. I love Amani as a main character, I loved her from the moment we met her in the very first book, being a badass gunslinger from the middle of the desert. I love her growth throughout the series and i love the impossible choices she has to make. I also love her priorities. I think my book might be permanently tear stained.

One of the things I loved the most and appreciated most were the choices that Amani made, especially at the very end. I am so glad that she didn't choose Jin and she decided to save Ahmed. I also love that she saved Shazad (who I would LOVE an entire book/series about. about her and Leyla, who is super evil and I want to know more about. But also fuck her cuz she's terrible. Sam's death hit me way harder than i thought it would, especially the mini chapter about him right after. I was sobbing into my book. I also ugly cried when Jin and Amani (briefly) died. I did not expect this book to impact me the way it did, and i absolutely could not put it down at all while i was reading it.

Another thing I really loved in this book were the mini legend-ish chapters dispersed throughout. i wasn't such a big fan in previous books, but I really really enjoyed them here, more than i expected. They really added something, and the writing was absolutely beautiful.
All this to say, if you have not already picked up this phenomenal series, you should!

amymarie512's review against another edition

5.0

OMG. I'm dead. What the hell. I can't even. Amani, Jin, AHHHH I can't. I just can't. LOVE LOVE LOVE. Amani and Jin I miss you already!

Re-read: Same. Book hangover city

lilybuddy's review against another edition

4.0

A great ending to what was a great series. The first book was great, I tore through that. The second was less satisfactory, because I don't like the main characters being separated for so long and I like women being held against their will even less, but after a long hiatus I got back into it and finished it quickly. And this last book, I read in about 24 hours. Easy to read but filled with humour, emotions, death and life, with life lessons and happy endings. A worthy ending to the series.