Review by jo_bee - Faithbreaker

jo_bee 's review for:

Faithbreaker by Hannah Kaner

4.25

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

For like 90 percent of the book it's the perfect ending. It's well written and engaging and the action is really involved, I had a great time for most of it. I liked it better than Book 2 for the most time, but there were a few things that annoyed me so badly it knocked the rating down for me.

Leg dying just felt kinda cheap, it didn't add much to the tragedy of the scene tbh, if anything Legs should have gotten their own moment. Instead this just feels like killing of the pet to get a reaction. As for Arren....I spent most of the book convincedhe would die, mirroring his old death, just because it felt kind of poetic. Then when the sacrifice happens I thought that was a really clever way for Arren and Hestra to still make it after all, especially since Hestra still had some embers...the fact that this detail was described and was not meant as a setup made this really disappointing, especially since few things about the epilogue would have changed had he lived. He could have given up the throne and that would have been true character development. Especially with no other pov from Elogast this was just....kind of disappointing and maddening in the end, which is wild since I had gone in expecting it.

Overall an emotional end to the series but it falls flat in too many parts to hold up as much as I thought it would while I was reading.

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