Despite Kristoff’s best efforts (unless he secretly hates Ashlinn too?) I felt absolutely zero investment, sympathy, kinship…whatever. While it was annoying in ‘Godsgrave’, it was practically intolerable here. (Did he do that on purpose?) Far from being moved or even relieved, the only emotion I felt was disappointed with a hefty dollop of irritation…and a chief source of that irritation was Ashlinn.Īshlinn as an entire character, the Mia-Ash romance and the Ash-Tric drama were a huge con for me in this book. The last line in Kristoff’s author bio is a bald-faced LIE.

…after the epilogue explains the last chapter… Imagining myself standing with them on that stupid Threelakes shore, just so #done with this Wait…what? How? Why? Most importantly, why do I feel ANNOYED instead of touched? The below gifs represent my reaction to the last chapter (I guess the epilogue wasn’t *all* bad)… I felt so much more emotional at the bittersweet pre-Big Showdown™ chapters – even the second last and maybe even the start of the final chapter – until everything just got incredibly cheapened. Why, why, WHY ruin a good book with such a last minute cop-out of a swerve? (If you know, you know.

We’ll begin, much like ‘Nevernight’ did, at the end. He looks calm but this face to me screams ‘leave me alone, I’m reading!’ Let’s get going with the review, shall we? In honour of this buddy read being with the one and only V, The Sassy Library Fox, a fellow BTS ARMY and the one who gifted me my Yoongi nickname, I shall only be using Yoongi (aka SUGA of BTS) gifs in this review! (Happy late Yoongi day!!) Night is falling on the Republic for perhaps the final time.Ĭan Mia survive in a world where even daylight must die?Ĭontent warnings (highlight to see): graphic violence, blood and gore death, suicide and murder ships in distress (storms) unwanted sexual advances explicit sexual content and sexual references animal cruelty (including death) loss of a loved one Together with her lover Ashlinn, brother Jonnen and a mysterious benefactor returned from the dead, she must undertake a perilous journey across the Republic, seeking the final answer to the riddle of her life. And her nemesis, Consul Julius Scaeva, stands but a breath from total dominance over the Republic.īut beneath the city, a dark secret awaits. Her mentor Mercurio is now in the clutches of her enemies.

Pursued by Blades of the Red Church and soldiers of the Luminatii legion, she may never escape Godsgrave alive. Mia Corvere, gladiatii, escaped slave and infamous assassin, is on the run.

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