194 reviews for:

Beasts of War

Ayana Gray

3.96 AVERAGE

adventurous fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

A great wrap up to the series. I had a bit of an issue with time keeping for the whole series but it was easy to get over because of the plentiful adventures. 

Representation: wlw side characters. 
adventurous tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

The ending was good but the pacing was uneven in this installment. I've liked this series a lot though and I'm glad to have finished it. I look forward to whatever Ayana Grey writes next.
adventurous emotional fast-paced
adventurous dark emotional funny 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 inspiring tense fast-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
adventurous challenging emotional hopeful 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 reflective 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: Yes

This was such a strong final instalment in the trilogy. I think this book Did such a good job with reconnecting all the different story threads that were set up in the previous books because there was a lot going on. I think this was really impactful as there were consequences to their choices, and none of the characters were perfect. 

I still love Koffi and Ekon’s relationship, and I think it has developed so well from where it started in the first book. I do think that the love triangle aspect for both of them was solved a little clunkily because with what happened to Zain and then Safiyah just leaving meant I didn’t find it as satisfying as them just choosing each other, but the epilogue definitely makes up for that. 

Reading Akande’s story alongside this one, was really interesting because he had a completely different relationship with Splendor than Koffi did, and how that shaped him into who he became. I did briefly forget who he was at the start because he wasn’t really mentioned that much in the previous books. 

adventurous hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

Koffi and Ekon are still trying to reach the Kusonga Plains before Fedu can destroy their world.
Koffi meets with one of the six gods, who tells her that if Koffi and Ekon can recruit her siblings, that they will help them fight Fedu.