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Would have been a 5 star read, if not for the overly complicated worldbuilding. At this point, I have no idea who is a god, godling, primal or what the difference between them is.
I had to google so much throughout the book and often didn’t even get answers there.

I did love the story though, the characters are great, I love the draken especially!
Sera is a very relatable main character and her mental health problems are well written. It was amazing to see the others support her and build her up.
The chemistry between Nyktos and her is off the charts, and not just in their spicy scenes. My favorite scene was

Sera trying to runaway to kill Kolis. The hurt, worry and love for each other was so real in that moment.

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chaptersofamylea's review against another edition

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emotional funny slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

3 ⭐️

Not entirely sure how I feel about this book, neither loved it or hated it, but probably my least favourite book from this world.

I found the pacing to be slow in places and other bits unnecessarily dragged out. I will say that I will hand on heart will always fall into the emotive writing when its comes to Sera’s mental health, it gets me every time. I do like trying to link all the bits in the massive FBAA web but I did find myself ridiculously confused in other places. I also don’t feel I love the side characters as much in this series (Draken excluded cos who wouldn’t love Jadis), and I think thats one of the reasons I love FBAA so much. Interested to see what Kolis will do with this latest development though.

TWs: depictions of gore, violence, corpse depictions, ref to SA, panic attacks, anxiety and depression

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challenging emotional hopeful inspiring sad 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

5.0

I enjoyed every minute of this book & didn’t want it to end. I believe this is the best of all of JLA’s novels. The pacing was perfect & sentence structure was much easier to understand. There was still moments of modern language but I could over look that because everything else was amazing for me.

The relationship between Nyktos & Sera was one of the best I think I have ever read. I love them & their story so much. The spice was outstanding, the banter was spot on & the tension throughout the whole book was perfection.

I also really appreciated sera’s anxiety rep, it felt very real & the author explored it with nuance - I felt very seen in those pages.

Overall I think it’s my favourite of the whole FBAA world & I can’t wait for the last book!

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danielleg72's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.75

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readlikeamother's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional tense

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

3.5/5 (give us half star ratings!!)

This is honestly feeling like the stronger series at this point compared to blood and ash. And I do think JLA is doing better at being less repetitive with the inner monologue. I still feel like the plot goes around in circles a bit too much and the book could lose 200 pages without losing anything essential. I’m invested, I just want it to get there a bit quicker ;)

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ka_ke's review against another edition

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dark emotional 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? No

5.0

Can we get the next books now? Please? Cause I am NOT OKAY. Is this the part where she goes into stasis? Or does that happen in the next book? Now I want to reread FBAA damn it.

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bookish_nurse_megs's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

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opheliaslittlelibrary's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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