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chloesumner1317 's review for:
The Iron Knight
by Julie Kagawa
This was such a satisfying end to this series.
If you read the Q&A with Julie Kagawa at the end of the book, she talks about how originally she was going to leave the series at the end of The Iron Queen. Luckily her editor convinced her otherwise. I feel like I need to shower that editor with gifts because THIS BOOK WAS AWESOME.
Ok, I was always Team Ash, and when Meaghan banished him from the Iron Realm at the end of the last book I was SOBBING from emotional overload between him becoming her knight and the fighting and her dismissal of him and it was just a lot of feelings all at once. Everything left open at the end of the last book gets wrapped up into a neat little package through the course of this book.
Let me just say that getting a book from Ash's perspective was literally the best thing ever. He's so introspective we got so much more than we did from Meaghan in terms of private thoughts. We learn a lot about his history and his thought process.
Puck was a lot more bearable for me in this book-he had some great one-liners and displayed more emotion than in the past three books. Also his friendship with Ariella was really really nice to watch.
Speaking of Ariella-FLAILING! DID NOT EXPECT THAT AT ALL! Really the only predictable thing she did was the conversation she had about being jealous of Meaghan and Ash's required "I love you but I'm in love with her" spiel. Actually, the way she ended up was also kind of what I was thinking would happen, but it was just such a tragic arc, it was perfect for Ash's character.
I absolutely loved the alternate futures that were presented in the book. Ash could have become that blood thirsty killer, but just based on the fact he was going to all of these lengths for Meaghan it was pretty obvious that wasn't the road he was going to go down.
But then the future where he was totally human-I absolutely cannot thank Julie Kagawa enough for giving us a glimpse into Ash's future. The book could have gone without it and still been fantastic, but adding that extra 2 chapters or so just skyrocketed the awesomeness. The future bit was honestly my favorite section. We saw THE PROPOSAL THAT MADE ME WANT TO CRY BECAUSE IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL, and overcoming his fear of technology, and CHILDREN (!!!!), and his death was beautiful, though I'm in danger of overusing that word. And when I found that it was all a dream I literally put down the book and started beating the front cover with my fists because how was that not real?!?! It was so perfect! It was exactly what I wanted!
But then Julie made it all better by taking that future and fixing the one last thing that could have been fixed.
All in all, this is one of the best series conclusions that I have ever had the pleasure of reading. Hats off to you, Julie Kagawa, for a completely imaginative quick read series that has captured my heart.
Ok, not to ruin the finality of that, but the ONLY thing I disliked about the book was the physical book itself. It's a paperback but it still had inside flaps, and it had the uneven paper around the edges. When I was reading I was thinking in the back of my mind "Who came up with this book design? It's so stupid! It doesn't match the other ones now! Augh! WTF!" the whole time.
If you read the Q&A with Julie Kagawa at the end of the book, she talks about how originally she was going to leave the series at the end of The Iron Queen. Luckily her editor convinced her otherwise. I feel like I need to shower that editor with gifts because THIS BOOK WAS AWESOME.
Ok, I was always Team Ash, and when Meaghan banished him from the Iron Realm at the end of the last book I was SOBBING from emotional overload between him becoming her knight and the fighting and her dismissal of him and it was just a lot of feelings all at once. Everything left open at the end of the last book gets wrapped up into a neat little package through the course of this book.
Let me just say that getting a book from Ash's perspective was literally the best thing ever. He's so introspective we got so much more than we did from Meaghan in terms of private thoughts. We learn a lot about his history and his thought process.
Puck was a lot more bearable for me in this book-he had some great one-liners and displayed more emotion than in the past three books. Also his friendship with Ariella was really really nice to watch.
Speaking of Ariella-FLAILING! DID NOT EXPECT THAT AT ALL! Really the only predictable thing she did was the conversation she had about being jealous of Meaghan and Ash's required "I love you but I'm in love with her" spiel. Actually, the way she ended up was also kind of what I was thinking would happen, but it was just such a tragic arc, it was perfect for Ash's character.
I absolutely loved the alternate futures that were presented in the book. Ash could have become that blood thirsty killer, but just based on the fact he was going to all of these lengths for Meaghan it was pretty obvious that wasn't the road he was going to go down.
But then the future where he was totally human-I absolutely cannot thank Julie Kagawa enough for giving us a glimpse into Ash's future. The book could have gone without it and still been fantastic, but adding that extra 2 chapters or so just skyrocketed the awesomeness. The future bit was honestly my favorite section. We saw THE PROPOSAL THAT MADE ME WANT TO CRY BECAUSE IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL, and overcoming his fear of technology, and CHILDREN (!!!!), and his death was beautiful, though I'm in danger of overusing that word. And when I found that it was all a dream I literally put down the book and started beating the front cover with my fists because how was that not real?!?! It was so perfect! It was exactly what I wanted!
But then Julie made it all better by taking that future and fixing the one last thing that could have been fixed.
All in all, this is one of the best series conclusions that I have ever had the pleasure of reading. Hats off to you, Julie Kagawa, for a completely imaginative quick read series that has captured my heart.
Ok, not to ruin the finality of that, but the ONLY thing I disliked about the book was the physical book itself. It's a paperback but it still had inside flaps, and it had the uneven paper around the edges. When I was reading I was thinking in the back of my mind "Who came up with this book design? It's so stupid! It doesn't match the other ones now! Augh! WTF!" the whole time.