A review by allijk03
The Fate of the Tearling by Erika Johansen

4.0

Excellent book, excellent characters, until the end. Not because it was anticlimactic, I don't mind anticlimactic, most books are slightly when there is a major fighting scene at the end, but because I expected better from the message. I feel like it was a cop out to say that well if one person didn't exist all the bad things wouldn't have happened. I think it sends a message that great evil can't be defeated in the time that it exists to any good or satisfactory way, it has to be eradicated before it even really comes into existence. That people can't overcome their own and their ancestors faults to make a good and safe society, there just has to be a kind of miracle to get rid of the bad thing before it exists. It made me sad that the book made such fatalistic and despondent finish.