I’ve been a fangirl of this series since it was self-published so of course I threw my whole body into the request button as soon as I could. The final book. The completion. The end. So exciting!
I wish I could have gotten the words into my face quicker than I did but alas, life etc.
Thanks to the author, as well as Orbit via NetGalley for a review copy!
There are no gods. Only men.
Betrayed by her closest allies, Empress Miko Ts’ai is thrust from ruler to pawn. But she won’t suffer the whims of men. A string of dangerous gambles could win Miko her empire for good, but to take back the throne, she must become everything her ancestors failed to be.
Rah e’Torin leads a herd again. Now he seeks to honor a promise he made a lifetime ago—to safely bring his Swords home. Yet Rah’s loyalty to the past may be his ultimate undoing.
Cassandra Marius is lost. Ensnared by memories that aren’t her own, Cass must decide who she really is, but the answer lies beyond one final confrontation with Leo Villius.
And trapped in the heart of the Chiltaen army, Dishiva e’Jaroven is handed unexpected power. The dream of a new homeland is within her grasp—if she risks everything and trusts her former enemies.
Mmmm love me some grand finales. This one was grand grand grand!
I won’t spoil the series for you, but some considerable shenanigans have gone down that have lead us to this volume. Each of the narrators in the story are now more-or-less in the same place, which is interesting. Things are starting to happen between them.
I love love love Cassandra as a character. I love her snark and the complex relationship between her and Kaysa. Her relationship in this volume to a fellow assassin becomes deeper and I really liked how their relationship changed.
But most of all, there was a thing that happened in this one. There was finally a thing. The thing finally happened. It happened and it was everything I had been waiting for. The heavens opened up and gay rainbows just erupted all over the place.
*ahem*
Anyway, this was a fantastic end to a fantastic series, and I really do recommend it to anyone that likes epic fantasy with characters that just come to life. The setting has a place in my imagination, the characters are beloved, and the writing was so very easy to just slip into for hours at a time.
I squee about a lot of books, and this one is no exception. Squee, squee, read the book. 5/5 stars!
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