A review by reclusivewanderer
The Fate of the Tearling by Erika Johansen

1.0

This book is well written. After reading the book's ending, that is all that this series has going for it. The ending makes the character development that all of the side characters undergo irrelevant. Why did I slog through this whole series through uninteresting povs just to have it not matter in the end? All the sacrifices that were made did not end up mattering at all. I should have just read spoilers for the ending when I got bored. If the ending did not have the trope of

going to the past to change the future

I think this would be a great series. But alas, it did not. My biggest gripes: No character relationships ended up mattering, the history insights at the beginning of the chapters do not actually matter, and character development was undone for the majority of the characters. There are more problems with this series directly relating to the ending but I dont care enough to go on.