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A review by theinquisitxor
House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas
5.0
4.5/5 stars
Hello and welcome to I Don't Really Know What To Say About This Book Because Nothing Else Can Triumph That Ending.
Seriously. While the beginning may have felt a little slow, and other parts of the book a bit too drawn out and taking up page space (similarly to how I felt about HoEaB) the climatic ending that this book races towards in the last two hundred pages or so is insane.
A well known fact about me: I love portal fantasy books. They are possibly my favorite genre/trope. SJM has been hinting and dropping easter eggs about a multiverse for so long, and seeing some of that come to light is so rewarding. I definitely read crossover fan fiction, and this becoming canon is a dream come true. It's a brutal ending, and reveals a truth about the multiverse that is absolutely horrifying, but wow SJM go off.
On a technical note, I think this book is her best writing yet. Either she has matured more as an author, or her editors toned her structure down, but it's much better than the line-by-line stuff she had going on in KoA.
I still think I like HoEaB more than I liked this second one, especially after falling in love with HoEaB even more on my reread. I just hope that CC3 has more Adias. Much more. He has zero page time in this book, and he was pretty much my favorite character in CC1.
Hello and welcome to I Don't Really Know What To Say About This Book Because Nothing Else Can Triumph That Ending.
Seriously. While the beginning may have felt a little slow, and other parts of the book a bit too drawn out and taking up page space (similarly to how I felt about HoEaB) the climatic ending that this book races towards in the last two hundred pages or so is insane.
A well known fact about me: I love portal fantasy books. They are possibly my favorite genre/trope. SJM has been hinting and dropping easter eggs about a multiverse for so long, and seeing some of that come to light is so rewarding. I definitely read crossover fan fiction, and this becoming canon is a dream come true. It's a brutal ending, and reveals a truth about the multiverse that is absolutely horrifying, but wow SJM go off.
On a technical note, I think this book is her best writing yet. Either she has matured more as an author, or her editors toned her structure down, but it's much better than the line-by-line stuff she had going on in KoA.
I still think I like HoEaB more than I liked this second one, especially after falling in love with HoEaB even more on my reread. I just hope that CC3 has more Adias. Much more. He has zero page time in this book, and he was pretty much my favorite character in CC1.