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4.11 AVERAGE

dark emotional 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

Love love love, took me forever to get over this book
adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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: No

i wish i enjoyed this book more because i love lei and wren so much and the message that natasha is conveying is so meaningful but i just felt myself getting bored at some points throughout the book :( nonetheless this is still such a beautiful ending to a trilogy that means the world to me

Actual Rating: 2.5 stars

This should have been a duology. I absolutely LOVED the first two books so I can't believe how much I didn't like the third book in this series. Book 3 felt like a lot of filler. It was 90% politics and war. It lacked the essence of the previous books, which was friendship, romance, vulnerability and depth... Maybe if I'd read this sooner, I might have been all for Book 3 since this during the peak of political high fantasy. It just felt like something was missing or like it could have been shaved down by at least 100 pages.

Now that I think about it, I had the same issues with GoFaF as I did Sarah J. Maas' Kingdom of Ash. So many cliches, so many characters, so many subplots that come out of left field. It's a consistent problem I see in YA fantasy series when they reach the finale.


Ash's review and Sophia's review sum up my sentiments.

Again, I really enjoyed it - but I need someone to please visually show me how the characters look without it sounding like it's beastiality because I can't.

And while I live for LGBT+ books - how is almost every relationship gay? Like, I think outside of her best friend's fixation on the king, there is one hetero couple lol

Also, changing POVs, especially when one is first person current tense and the other is third person past tense... just awkward.
adventurous dark emotional inspiring 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

«[..] If you carry the full weight of your responsibilities all the time, even the strongest person would be crushed.”

Girls of Fate and Fury might be the best book of this trilogy, a worthy ending for this fantastic series.
This series touches upon a lot of heavy subjects that many fantasy books, specially YA, shy away from. But Natasha Ngan tackles everything with so much care and love, the way she writes about survivors is truly phenomenal, how much she cares about victims is palpable. I hope she continues to approach these subjects in her next works.
ALSOOO we finally got a Wren POV and that added so much to the story. However feel robbed i really wanted a wedding epilogue!
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DID NOT FINISH

I couldn't finish the other two books in the series. (Check them out for the reasons why)
adventurous fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Good pacing and drama but didn't really care for any of the characters or the plot. The end felt too easy for the 3-book build-up.
adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective tense 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

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