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4.42 AVERAGE
4.42 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
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:
Complicated
This is my favourite series ever. I've never felt so much reading a book and I've never cried so hard at the end. Endlessly glad these books exist and this was a perfect end
adventurous
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
adventurous
emotional
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
adventurous
dark
emotional
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
When The Lotus Empire, and the whole Burning Kingdoms series, is at its best if very good. When it's focused on Priya and Malini, their relationship and the themes around faith, sacrifice and fate and what we chose to make of them and ourselves it's very good. Unfortunately everything else falls slightly flat and feels like a chore we're quickly speeding through to get to the next important part. This leaves everything lacking a certain weight. Events happen in half a page that could take up a whole chapter. Conversations that could've been used to give weight to relationships outside the main pair are entirely skipped over. It leaves everything feeling slightly unmoored.
Overall good but I feel it had more potential that wasn't realised.
Overall good but I feel it had more potential that wasn't realised.
adventurous
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
hopeful
slow-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
I really love this series. I love our two “main” characters if you can actually even call them the main characters there are so many POV’s that feels inaccurate. I will say I am very nitpicky when it comes to endings and this is no different. I will start by saying I love Tasha Suri and their writing. Priya and Malani are some of my favorite flawed characters. I actually love all the characters in this series. The magic and world are lush and some of my favorites. I think it was a little weird to do even more world building in the finale and I really think we spent too much time on things that didn’t need that much time and not enough on the things that needed it. The ending itself felt a little too “neatly wrapped bow” for my liking. Especially with the amount of war that this series deals with. I will say I adore the conversations about faith, misogyny, and sacrifice that are always present in this one. Overall it’s a 4 star series for me but not my favorite ending.
adventurous
emotional
tense
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
adventurous
challenging
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
emotional
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
The shift of relationships in this story. The anger and rage as well. The war, choices, and betrayals of all have changed people and there is this overall desperate sense of trying to survive.
The plot pulled me in. This book really caused me to reflect on how far the characters have come since book one and how their experiences have changed them.
This ending was not all happily ever after but was painful and sad. It had hardship to it. There is a happy ending for the characters but it is a rose with some very sharp thorns.