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shawniebooks's review against another edition
4.0
Bravo! Very satisfying end to this wonderful series!
lee25's review
4.0
I absolutely love this series - I have re-read the entire series as each new book was released and I am devastated that it has come to end.
[b:Grave War|45700608|Grave War (Alex Craft, #7)|Kalayna Price|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1606451110l/45700608._SY75_.jpg|70469317] did not disappoint. It was a great ending to the series.
Can't wait to read whatever [a:Kalayna Price|2803627|Kalayna Price|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1282843315p2/2803627.jpg] comes up with next.
[b:Grave War|45700608|Grave War (Alex Craft, #7)|Kalayna Price|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1606451110l/45700608._SY75_.jpg|70469317] did not disappoint. It was a great ending to the series.
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Although as a huge Death fan I would have loved a lot more of him in this story.Can't wait to read whatever [a:Kalayna Price|2803627|Kalayna Price|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1282843315p2/2803627.jpg] comes up with next.
alikatson's review against another edition
5.0
I can't believe this series is over. It was great and I hope Kalayna writes another story in the world - maybe more of the witch versus fae for something different. I loved that Alex had two different roles in the stories but I missed the witch part in these last couple installments.
I had some hunches about some hidden identities and was right, but how the story unfolded was very surprising (as usual). It was nerve racking until the very end which very happy with!
I had some hunches about some hidden identities and was right, but how the story unfolded was very surprising (as usual). It was nerve racking until the very end which very happy with!
belanna2's review
mysterious
medium-paced
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
2.0
This series finale was abysmal. This isn't how you finish out a series...there could have been at least five books in between this book: her father/mother identities felt shoehorned in; the true antagonist of the series just disappearing. This felt anticlimactic; this was rushed without wrapping up any of the storylines in the previous books...and that tact-on ending was a cop-out. I am so disappointed.
wanda_madelaine's review
4.0
Wow! I didn't expect to like this series. It took me to the 3rd chapter of the first book to keep me interested, and then just like that I'm done reading the last book.
I think the author is from faerie. She defined faerie very vividly.
I like the characters and their personalities. Of how the main character can be a walking irony.
Although it shows more of the importance of friends being their families than their families per se. Valuing both is shown here.
I think the author is from faerie. She defined faerie very vividly.
I like the characters and their personalities. Of how the main character can be a walking irony.
Although it shows more of the importance of friends being their families than their families per se. Valuing both is shown here.
bookish_caprice's review against another edition
5.0
It's simply amazing.. perfect ending, although I'm sad it's done now and wish there were more of that story..
tessisreading2's review
3.0
I skipped two books when a library hold came in. The thing is... it didn't really matter, and I think that's the major flaw with this series. All seven books cover perhaps a year in the book world, and Alex and her friends basically just keep going around and around in circles. The Big Ultimate Villain is someone we met in previous books... who got more villainous in some of those books... and I guess got more so in the two I haven't read yet, but somehow escaped any consequent detainment/punishment... and who develops yet more superpowers, ancestry, and goals which seem to have come out of nowhere, because that's how things work in this series.
It feels sloppy, unfortunately; the more urban fantasy I read, the more I understand how Ilona Andrews is the behemoth of the urban fantasy genre - because the authors had an overarching world setup and plot from book one, and while they never played their hand too early, on re-reading early books in their series, you can see the hints and clues that the readers and often the characters missed at the time. Price clearly wasn't doing that; most of this comes out of nowhere, and Alex, as usual, doesn't pay attention to anything until it becomes plot-necessary for her to do so. Remember that Alex has a missing brother? Neither do I, because except for a few brief mentions in previous books she didn't seem particularly worried about it. Remember her traumatized younger sister? Yeah, remains totally irrelevant to basically everything always. When the heavy drama begins early in the book, Alex seems about as worried as she is when she's dealing with a run-of-the-mill grave witch case with a jerk client, which is nowhere near proportional to the scale of the crisis she's confronting. It makes it hard to find the books particularly stressful, because nothing feels real.
That said, there's something to be said for that. The series is pleasant and engaging, there are plenty of bad guys and dramatic fight scenes, lots of endearing secondary characters, and while Alex is something of a Mary Sue (boy is she ever) she's not unpleasant. There's no sexualized violence, which is a pleasant change from many urban fantasy series. The whole series is wrapped up with a neat little bow - and if the bow is a little too neat and the series is a little too wrapped up in, basically, the very last chapter of the book, well, that's consistent with the rest of the series, and it's nice to have a thorough conclusive ending to things.
It feels sloppy, unfortunately; the more urban fantasy I read, the more I understand how Ilona Andrews is the behemoth of the urban fantasy genre - because the authors had an overarching world setup and plot from book one, and while they never played their hand too early, on re-reading early books in their series, you can see the hints and clues that the readers and often the characters missed at the time. Price clearly wasn't doing that; most of this comes out of nowhere, and Alex, as usual, doesn't pay attention to anything until it becomes plot-necessary for her to do so. Remember that Alex has a missing brother? Neither do I, because except for a few brief mentions in previous books she didn't seem particularly worried about it. Remember her traumatized younger sister? Yeah, remains totally irrelevant to basically everything always. When the heavy drama begins early in the book, Alex seems about as worried as she is when she's dealing with a run-of-the-mill grave witch case with a jerk client, which is nowhere near proportional to the scale of the crisis she's confronting. It makes it hard to find the books particularly stressful, because nothing feels real.
That said, there's something to be said for that. The series is pleasant and engaging, there are plenty of bad guys and dramatic fight scenes, lots of endearing secondary characters, and while Alex is something of a Mary Sue (boy is she ever) she's not unpleasant. There's no sexualized violence, which is a pleasant change from many urban fantasy series. The whole series is wrapped up with a neat little bow - and if the bow is a little too neat and the series is a little too wrapped up in, basically, the very last chapter of the book, well, that's consistent with the rest of the series, and it's nice to have a thorough conclusive ending to things.
blodeuedd's review against another edition
3.0
The end? Oh no, I had not realised it before the actual epilogue. But it was a perfect ending and I was happy.
Alex in in charge of FIB, and is unsure. Faelan is Winter King, and well issues there too (I still want her with Death though, alas no, I can't even remember what happened. Anyway, this is not a book to jump in too, like all UF it has to be read in order. A lot has happened. Grave Witch stuff, evil queens, ghosts and much more. And in this final installment a bomb ruins a gateway and all of Faerie suffers.
Alex has a lot on her plate. Things go down, and yes I can't really say more about that. It has been a great series and I will miss it. There are too few new UF series that wow me these days. These from the golden days are always good reads.
I read the first few and then I have listened to Emily Durante narrate these last 3 and she has been great. I like her voices for everyone, her tone and feel of the book. I highly recommend listening to this series.
Alex in in charge of FIB, and is unsure. Faelan is Winter King, and well issues there too (I still want her with Death though, alas no, I can't even remember what happened. Anyway, this is not a book to jump in too, like all UF it has to be read in order. A lot has happened. Grave Witch stuff, evil queens, ghosts and much more. And in this final installment a bomb ruins a gateway and all of Faerie suffers.
Alex has a lot on her plate. Things go down, and yes I can't really say more about that. It has been a great series and I will miss it. There are too few new UF series that wow me these days. These from the golden days are always good reads.
I read the first few and then I have listened to Emily Durante narrate these last 3 and she has been great. I like her voices for everyone, her tone and feel of the book. I highly recommend listening to this series.