193 reviews for:

Beasts of War

Ayana Gray

3.96 AVERAGE

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DID NOT FINISH: 70%

Too slow and not as well written as the previous books 
adventurous challenging dark funny hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring 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: Yes

“‘Because the truth is, they lied to us. No one is entirely good or evil. We all fit somewhere in between’” . 

Unfortunately, I think this book fell victim to the “last book in the YA sci-fi/fantasy trilogy” curse, as I feel like it’s the worst one. I still loved so much about it though, including the occasional callbacks, and how everything kind of wrapped itself up in a nice little package. (Also, I love me a happy-ending :’)). 

Also also, I’d love to know if the cabbage vendor in that one city was an ATLA reference because if so that would be iconic. 

This third book was a bit rushed, with a lot of filler. After you read the first two books, you obviously have to see it through. The ending wasn’t as satisfying as I would have liked.
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: Yes

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Overall, I liked this book and the series, but I'm struggling with the rating. While there were parts I liked, I did struggle with others. I liked the action, and I liked how the characters evolved and the how the relationships developed. I struggled with the pacing and part of the writing style.

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adventurous hopeful medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I mean, I will never love cop outs for resolving love tripods and that is definitely what this was but all the rest of it I was on board with!

Why was this so anti-climatic? Especially the ending? 

I feel like the final battle had so much potential but it was over in 5 seconds. And Zain just dies to go support the realm of the dead?????? Out of NOWHERE??

That was no proper closure with Zain/Safitag, we only got the Ekon/ Koffi endgame in the epilogue…

Grandma didn’t make a reappearance.

I just felt very underwhelmed. The ending was incredibly rushed and ruined the vibes.
adventurous mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous emotional funny medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes