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A review by marklpotter
The Killing Light by Myke Cole
5.0
Myke Cole provides a perfect ending to this series. Seeing Heloise's saga end is heartbreaking for me as a reader because Mr. Cole has written a damn near perfect trilogy here and I wanted it to be so much longer. I want more time with the all of these characters and I am not going to get it but at the same time I realize that all good things must come to an end and this end is as beautiful as it is brutal. The Sacred Throne trilogy is one of the best trilogies I've ever consumed and consume it I did. I devoured these books not because they were easy to read but because I fell in love with the characters. Each installment better than the last and each more heart wrenching.
Mykes terse style of writing lends to reading this whole series at a breakneck pace. It's impossible not to share the urgency of Heloise and the rest of the characters as the reader is dragged through the entire gamut of human emotion. There is no respite from the story here, no stopping to smell the roses, the pacing is absolutely brutal and rightfully so. Myke spares no words here yet is not Spartan in his worldbuilding. I am truly amazed at how much the world comes alive in these three books, however it is the characters that drive this amazing tale and if you haven't fallen in love with them by the end of the story then I posit that you have no soul.
Mykes terse style of writing lends to reading this whole series at a breakneck pace. It's impossible not to share the urgency of Heloise and the rest of the characters as the reader is dragged through the entire gamut of human emotion. There is no respite from the story here, no stopping to smell the roses, the pacing is absolutely brutal and rightfully so. Myke spares no words here yet is not Spartan in his worldbuilding. I am truly amazed at how much the world comes alive in these three books, however it is the characters that drive this amazing tale and if you haven't fallen in love with them by the end of the story then I posit that you have no soul.