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Requiem of Silence by L. Penelope

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applejacksbooks's review against another edition

adventurous emotional slow-paced

4.0

I thought this was a fantastic ending to this series. Everyone who was supposed to get a happy ending did. I thought it was lovely that the author allowed even the morally grey characters get the ending that seemed right. While I really enjoyed this series, it is a slow paced series with sporadic action and is very plot heavy. Which is a nice change of pace in high fantasy. I like that the magic system is unique and focuses heavily on the ideal that everyone is apart of the earth and what we take we give back in the end.

rachelguthro's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional hopeful slow-paced

5.0

mkpatter's review against another edition

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adventurous hopeful medium-paced

3.0

wineywitch202's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

4.25

kelseylucinda's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional medium-paced

3.75

In many ways, this book was a perfect conclusion to the series. I enjoyed seeing many of the main characters of previous books, and the fleshing out of previously minor characters. However, much of the plot was driven by most of the characters keeping secrets from each other (and secrets from the general populace) in a way I found frustrating. Jasminda's choices in particular did not seem to fit her character....though that may have just been that I did not agree with them. I hope this is not the last we see of the world. Though most of the threads were tied up, the futures of many of the characters were a mystery, and I hope we can at least get a glimpse of them someday.

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rara2018's review

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5.0

This was honestly the perfect conclusion to the series. It was so bittersweet and I may or may not have cried multiple times throughout, but it was also filled to the brim with hopefulness. Zeli and Varten allowed each other to grow in ways neither of them expected and it was really heartwarming to read their stories. Kyara and Jasminda are always welcome narrators, and it was really fascinating to learn more about Oola's and Eero's family dynamics. The political atmosphere of this story was fraught with tension, and the ending didn't perfectly resolve everything but instead made it seem very real. I was in love with the story from the first to the last page and I thought this was the strongest book in the series. L. Penelope created such an amazing series and ended it in such a satisfying way.

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for providing me with this ARC in exchange for an honest review.