Reviews - Faithbreaker | The StoryGraph

1.56k reviews for:

Faithbreaker

Hannah Kaner

4.2 AVERAGE

kponturo's review against another edition

5.0

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

jo_bee's review against another edition

4.25

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.

Content Warnings

anzelotte's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 32%

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.

fictiojuris's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous 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: Yes

bdhroasted's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

ajaegs's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad 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

I inhaled this book! Truly, I adored it.

Kaner’s worldbuilding is stellar. The plot is gripping. You see the duality of all characters and feel torn in a way that's really beautiful. It was the perfect ending to the trilogy, and I think every character got the ended they needed.

I think what impressed me most, though, was just how effortlessly normal she made inclusivity feel. Her cast is incredibly diverse, and you learn about them in very matter-of-fact ways. Character actions never felt tokenized or reified as this other doing the extraordinary despite their ability, race, gender, or sexuality. It was an important part of their identity, but it never felt like the only part of their identity. She walked the fine line between being seen and being ogled, and, to me, that’s what really made this book shine.