adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad medium-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

This was a good and surprising end to this trilogy. There were MANY twists and turns throughout this entire book. BUT OH MAN...i was not expecting one of them. Yes. I did cry, there was a point where i couldn't take it anymore and just let the tears flow.

Mal. I want to marry this man. Yes. Yes. I know that he sometimes ignored our dear Alina at sometimes but HE WAS ONLY TRYING TO PROTECT HER. He is so caring and sweet and I just love him.

Nikolai. I can't. He is my favorite character by far. Here is a quote that I think was one of the best quotes that I have ever read. It made me laugh so hard (If you have read the series you know why it is funny) "I gasped. 'imposs-' 'Don't say it,' muttered Mal. The chaos erupted." (Pg. 119) OH YESSIR! I am so excited to start the next book (King of Scars) because IT IS LITERALLY ABOUT HIM. ugh SWOON.

The Darkling. I found myself actually feeling bad for him. I know. I know. But he will always have a soft spot in my heart.

Overall, I thought that this book was amazing. It was a little confusing at some times but I really enjoyed it. I will say, though, that I think I enjoyed the others better (who knows...maybe it is just because I don't want it to end.)
adventurous dark tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous emotional funny 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
medium-paced
adventurous challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I LOVE THIS SERIES SO MUCH!!!! This conclusion was SO great and satisfying! I am so excited to see what Leigh Bardugo writes in the future, because she has for sure made a fan out of me!

These books were so well written. I thoroughly enjoyed the last book. <3
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad 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 funny medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

I hate endings where the main character lose their power it pmo so bad. Also i acc dk how to feel abt Mal he reminds me of gale a bit but not really. I liked Nikolai but i get that it made sense for alina to stay at the orphanage w Mal it was a good endings for her character and the ending was sweet


This whole series the plot was js rushed in general idk if it’s bc I don’t like super fast paced books that much but idk js slow down bro
Ngl this should prolly be less than what I’ve rated it but whatevs!

This isn’t really that good a book it’s a bit eh don’t read this if u want to read sm life changing but it was entertaining 

One thing I noticed is that this whole series was quite repetitive-
Like anytime they were safe suddenly the darkling (goofy name btw cringed me out) would appear and then they’d escape it just got very predictable