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Hero at the Fall
by Alwyn Hamilton
I'm in awe.
It's a difficult thing to satisfactorily wrap up any series, much less one as complex and morally complicated as the Rebel of the Sands trilogy. With Hero at the Fall, Alwyn Hamilton manages to do it pretty much perfectly.
Hero at the Fall is a perfectly bittersweet end to a series that never really shied away from dealing with some of the hard questions about rebellion and leadership. It feels real. It's neither a manufactured happy ending nor an unnecessarily grim one.
Hero at the Fall also makes perfect use of the story interludes that Traitor to the Throne introduced.
Hero at the Fall is about as perfect as I think a book can get. It doesn't leave annoying dangling plot threads, but it doesn't tie everything up so tightly that it feels like Miraji dies when you close the back cover. Hamilton walks every fine line associated with ending a trilogy with skill (frankly, more skill than I expected in a debut series) and crafts one of the most satisfying endings I've ever read in YA.
5/5
It's a difficult thing to satisfactorily wrap up any series, much less one as complex and morally complicated as the Rebel of the Sands trilogy. With Hero at the Fall, Alwyn Hamilton manages to do it pretty much perfectly.
Hero at the Fall is a perfectly bittersweet end to a series that never really shied away from dealing with some of the hard questions about rebellion and leadership. It feels real. It's neither a manufactured happy ending nor an unnecessarily grim one.
Hero at the Fall also makes perfect use of the story interludes that Traitor to the Throne introduced.
Spoiler
They're beautiful tributes to fallen characters. The idea the end of Hero at the Fall plays with - that there are a hundred stories that will be told about Amani, Jin, and all the rest of them, but that the little things, the important things, like the shape of a smile or the weight of a hand or the memory of being taught to swim will die with them - is also one of my favorite things I've encountered in a story.Hero at the Fall is about as perfect as I think a book can get. It doesn't leave annoying dangling plot threads, but it doesn't tie everything up so tightly that it feels like Miraji dies when you close the back cover. Hamilton walks every fine line associated with ending a trilogy with skill (frankly, more skill than I expected in a debut series) and crafts one of the most satisfying endings I've ever read in YA.
5/5