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emotional
sad
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
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
sad
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:
Complicated
emotional
mysterious
sad
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
PSA!!!
There is a significant amount of time that passes between Ravensong and this book. A lot happens in between. You will likely be confused at first -- just stick with it! Everything gets explained eventually.
Holy shit.
I don’t… It’s 10pm. I have to go to work in the morning. How the hell am I supposed to go to work tomorrow like everything’s okay, after finishing this book?
I don’t understand the hold these books have on me but I don’t want it to ever stop.
There is a significant amount of time that passes between Ravensong and this book. A lot happens in between. You will likely be confused at first -- just stick with it! Everything gets explained eventually.
Holy shit.
I don’t… It’s 10pm. I have to go to work in the morning. How the hell am I supposed to go to work tomorrow like everything’s okay, after finishing this book?
I don’t understand the hold these books have on me but I don’t want it to ever stop.
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Ngl I’m getting a lil tired of this series. But TJ Klune has me hooked with his writing and extremely loveable characters. I enjoyed this book and I will be finishing the series
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
Without fail there is always a moment in a TJ Klune books that stabs me in the heart and makes me cry. For this book I was on a walk through a park and people were looking at me. But the humans howled for them!!!
I had a feeling that if I stuck with this series for long enough I'd get some primo Grade-A Angst™ and I was right. And it hurts so good; put that shit right into my veins.
Maybe this this goes without saying as a third entry in a series, but this cannot hold up as a standalone novel, it absolutely builds upon and requires the two that came before it. And while I hate to be a, "it gets better as you go on!" kind of guy, that's absolutely the case here. With a first entry that left me curious but still a little uncomfortable and a second entry that was an improvement but still pulled its punches, I'm really glad at where this one landed. I think what worked for me was the tone shift that wasn't afraid to lean into heavier themes without the frequent hyuck hyuck jokes present in the first two books. Even the characters that were clearly meant to be comic relief have hardened and sobered up at this point.
Also a big fan of just the overall structure of the plot: we start with a minor character we've seen before now being given center stage in the protagonist role, but not really with anyone else we recognize. Okay, you think to yourself, this is obviously a flashback, until it clicks into place that this is all occurring after the events of book two. When the (first) big twist happens about a quarter of the way through the book it hits hard and is really bittersweet despite happening so early on.
At heart this is a romance, but there's also a lot of action and politics and violence and betrayal going on. But it really struck me how this central relationship still managed to rise to the top and hold my attention and interest in spite of all these peripheral reactions. The stakes felt real and serious, and this didn't at all feel like a phoned-in filler entry before the big grand finale.
I've spent fifteen-hundred pages with some of these characters at this point and damned if I wasn't teary-eyed by the end of it. Just a matter of when and not if I'll get around to the fourth and final book in this series.
Maybe this this goes without saying as a third entry in a series, but this cannot hold up as a standalone novel, it absolutely builds upon and requires the two that came before it. And while I hate to be a, "it gets better as you go on!" kind of guy, that's absolutely the case here. With a first entry that left me curious but still a little uncomfortable and a second entry that was an improvement but still pulled its punches, I'm really glad at where this one landed. I think what worked for me was the tone shift that wasn't afraid to lean into heavier themes without the frequent hyuck hyuck jokes present in the first two books. Even the characters that were clearly meant to be comic relief have hardened and sobered up at this point.
Also a big fan of just the overall structure of the plot: we start with a minor character we've seen before now being given center stage in the protagonist role, but not really with anyone else we recognize. Okay, you think to yourself, this is obviously a flashback, until it clicks into place that this is all occurring after the events of book two. When the (first) big twist happens about a quarter of the way through the book it hits hard and is really bittersweet despite happening so early on.
At heart this is a romance, but there's also a lot of action and politics and violence and betrayal going on. But it really struck me how this central relationship still managed to rise to the top and hold my attention and interest in spite of all these peripheral reactions. The stakes felt real and serious, and this didn't at all feel like a phoned-in filler entry before the big grand finale.
I've spent fifteen-hundred pages with some of these characters at this point and damned if I wasn't teary-eyed by the end of it. Just a matter of when and not if I'll get around to the fourth and final book in this series.
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
