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4.2 AVERAGE
4.2 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
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
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
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:
Complicated
It's been over a year since I read the first two books in this trilogy yet I was immediately transported back into this world and invested in every character once more. I was brought to tears throughout by the depth of emotion and sense of connection with even the supporting characters. I'm still not entirely certain what the moral of this story is - that life is complicated? That love is greater than hate? That power corrupts?
Regardless, I'm happy this book delivered back up to the quality of the first in the series, since I wasn't as much if a fan of the middle book.
Side note: I'd really like an accompanying recipe book - Elo come cook for me please!
Regardless, I'm happy this book delivered back up to the quality of the first in the series, since I wasn't as much if a fan of the middle book.
Side note: I'd really like an accompanying recipe book - Elo come cook for me please!
This can’t be how this series ended — I .. don’t even know what to say.. this easily could’ve been a 4.5 rated up for me, but this was emotional robbery and ended terribly
adventurous
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
tense
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
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
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
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
For like 90 percent of the book it's the perfect ending. It's well written and engaging and the action is really involved, I had a great time for most of it. I liked it better than Book 2 for the most time, but there were a few things that annoyed me so badly it knocked the rating down for me.
Leg dying just felt kinda cheap, it didn't add much to the tragedy of the scene tbh, if anything Legs should have gotten their own moment. Instead this just feels like killing of the pet to get a reaction. As for Arren....I spent most of the book convincedhe would die, mirroring his old death, just because it felt kind of poetic. Then when the sacrifice happens I thought that was a really clever way for Arren and Hestra to still make it after all, especially since Hestra still had some embers...the fact that this detail was described and was not meant as a setup made this really disappointing, especially since few things about the epilogue would have changed had he lived. He could have given up the throne and that would have been true character development. Especially with no other pov from Elogast this was just....kind of disappointing and maddening in the end, which is wild since I had gone in expecting it.
Overall an emotional end to the series but it falls flat in too many parts to hold up as much as I thought it would while I was reading.
Overall an emotional end to the series but it falls flat in too many parts to hold up as much as I thought it would while I was reading.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, War
Moderate: Animal death, Blood
I just feel like this series went a bit downhill. I gave it 132 pages to get my attention but its just so slow and not what I thought it would be based on book 1.