red_daisy 's review for:

The Jasad Crown by Sara Hashem

4.5

adventurous emotional sad medium-paced

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This was a beautiful duology. The characters are so well crafted, each with their own distinct personality. I have so much affection for Sefa, Marek, but especially Jeru. He starts with such a small role, yet his deep conviction and sense of justice make him grow into one of the key secondary characters by the end.

Arin… how can you not fall in love with a character so torn apart by his past, by duty, and by love? I still get teary just thinking about everything he endured, especially

those ten final years that stretched his torment even further.

The ending doesn’t give us the resolution we’ve been waiting for throughout the book, but instead leaves it for us to imagine. Kudos to the author for daring to do things differently.

That said, I still closed the book with a few lingering questions… I would have liked to see some threads tied up. For instance,

when Sareekh says “When you remember what you lost, come back for me,” I thought it was foreshadowing something important—but it wasn’t. What did that even mean? We never see Sareekh again afterward.