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4.1 AVERAGE
4.1 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
What an end to this trilogy!
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Things have come very far for our young group of friends and the love triangle since the first book. Lore is without Nyxara and banished to the Burnt Isles to forced mining. Bastian is all but lost to Apollius and reigning at court with Allie and Emperor Jax as the Sainted King. And the other corner of the love triangle with Bastian and Lore, Gabe, is hanging out with Malcolm and the smugglers.
Whitten has given them a quest-- find all the pieces of the font and have them converge on the Burnt Isles where the gods fell and the broken font languishes. It's a tidy plot with everyone duly finding their pieces and ending up on boats.
Whitten isn't afraid to abuse her characters. Bastian goes through a lot as well as Lore. She's really in a penal colony and no one likes her. Still, she somehow manages to escape.
We get some more background knowledge of the gods before they fell, and alot of Apollius being a megolomaniac, and alot of Gabe coming to terms with his protectiveness for both Bastian and Lore.
And we get Allie making nice with the tyrannical Jax (who, if you remember, tore out Gabe's eye) which felt wrong to me.
And we get Allie making nice with the tyrannical Jax (who, if you remember, tore out Gabe's eye) which felt wrong to me.
And in the end, there are two sacrifices-- which we could finally see coming. My only quibble here is that if you're going to make painful sacrifices and make a reader go through that emotional journey, it feels like a cop out to then create a situation where the character doesn't have to deal with the impact of that sacrifice. Let's just say Whitten ties up things a mite too neatly. Still a fitting end to the series.