deadwife 's review for:

Five Dark Fates by Kendare Blake
2.0

This was such a mess for the first 300 pages which is really unacceptable. I still think this is a gorgeous series but by the end I think the author found herself with too many characters and too many plot points to wrap up. If we’d taken two or three concepts (dead queens, legion queen, triplet queens, ghost queens and visions from the past, big battle, sisters being sisters….zombies?) instead of the many many different ones we ended up with, I think it would have been for the better. The first book absolutely outsold and I think it deserved a better series than what we got. I also thought the ending —> epilogue was fairly weak.