Reviews - The Fallen and the Kiss of Dusk

686 reviews for:

The Fallen and the Kiss of Dusk

Carissa Broadbent

4.21 AVERAGE

amandacast9159's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

alittlebitofjessica's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

No notes, fantastic conclusion to Mische and Asar's story and potentially my favourites so far. Big book but didn't feel like any of it dragged - I'm just sad that we have to wait until next year now!

maria_schnecki's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Thanks NetGalley and Pan Macmillan for the arc!

After having read all of Carissas Nyaxia Books in the last 1,5 years, I thought I was prepared. Guess not.
If you've come this far in the series, you are probably familiar with the events up until book three. Well, that's what I thought. I really really recommend reading a summary of at least book 3 before starting this one - it has only been a year for me and I was feeling so, so lost. Quick tip: there is a glossary in the back of the book.

The book starts off where part 3 ended, so there is not a lot else to be said about the plot.
Carissa Broadbent manages to think of a dazzling setting, great mysteries and shocking plot twists yet again. Her ability to create magical places is pretty unmatched.
I really loved the songbird and the heart of stone. Something about Mische, Asar and Luce really clicked with me. This makes it even more shocking to me that I was unable to connect with these characters at all this time. I can't really pin this feeling, maybe it felt like too much plot with to little time to execute it, poor pacing or something else, but I was struggling hard with this book. I usually finish books in under a week, and this one took me nearly three. I was interested in the story, but not really motivated to pick up the book. Maybe it was more of a me problem, but idk.
The thing that really saved this one for me were the side characters. I don't want to spoil anything, but the book starts off strong.

I don't know what it is, but like with the first duet in the crowns of nyaxia series, I loved the first book but did not enjoy the second.
Still, I am looking forward to reading the next one as it comes out. Based on the Epilogue I have a feeling on who could be our mc and I am so so excited (yes, I am also surprised by this)

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