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Graphic: Body shaming, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Grief, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail
Of the two series, I am definitely more partial to FAF and I felt like this was a fantastic conclusion to the series overall. This one did take me a while to get through however. The book picks up immediately after the last book and I felt there was still so much unnecessary repetition. A lot could have been edited out without it impacting the story whatsoever. But once I got over those initial hurdles, I was hooked and couldn’t put this down.
JLA is an extraordinary storyteller, however, her writing style sometimes doesn’t flow. Oftentimes certain phrases are used that feel more modern/trendy that pulled me out of the story a bit. Phrases that don’t feel rooted in the world that has been built. And, as with FBAA, we again lose a bit of Nyktos to the lust and Sera championing that goes on. While not as bad as FBAA, Nykotos still maintained more of his own personality, he still felt heavily engulfed in his lust for Sera and whatever came with that. She couldn’t even hug her father-like friend without him growling. While I am all for a MMC growling “she’s mine” to some background douche or the villain, the constant posturing against your own friends and family is annoying. I also had a bit of an issue with the pacing of the story. Overall, it felt a bit slow and it wasn’t until I was about 50-60% through before I was finally into it. Too much unnecessary dialogue/scenes and the most important parts of the plot seemed to be jammed into the last 30% of the book. The final showdown with Kolis, unfortunately, was rushed.
I appreciated how JLA handled Sera’s trauma and healing journey from her SA and Nyktos’ gentleness as he helped her through it.
I enjoyed the scheming, strategizing and political aspects. I absolutely LOVED the karma that was doled out. Nektas, Reaver and Jadis were, again, my standout favourites. I need a series just about the drakken. There were moments that made me laugh, cry and moments that had me on the edge of my seat. I loved learning more about the prophecy and puzzling it out alongside Sera. This series did a fantastic job weaving together the events of FAF and FBAA and I’m so excited to grab the next FBAA book to see how everything ties off.
Graphic: Death, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Death, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Mental illness, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy
Graphic: Death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Cursing, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment
Minor: Body shaming, Confinement, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Alcohol
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Murder, Pregnancy, War
Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, Abortion, Death of parent
Minor: Medical content
Graphic: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, War
Minor: Fatphobia
Sera and Ash are reunited and Sera has a lot of PTSD from her time with Kolis, but she’s in denial and fails to address it for most of the story, which has serious implications. Sera gets reunions with her Lasania family while also building her chosen family with Nyktos and friends in Illesium. I loved both for her.
Nyktos shows care and starts to allow others to see him happy and as Ash, which made me happy as both he and Sera acknowledge the chosen family they built.
Hollander returns and makes a few brief appearances that surprise and inform.
While a lot happens, this book ends
Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Body shaming, Child death, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting
Graphic: Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War
Moderate: Confinement, Torture, Vomit, Kidnapping, Pregnancy
Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Vomit
Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt
Graphic: Death, Genocide, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Murder, War
Moderate: Pregnancy
Minor: Vomit, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Alcohol