Gideon is a young and charming young woman, master swordsman. She happens to be raised in a world ruled by necromancers with many terrible risks associated with this craft. Death being a relatively small risk given that the necromancers around can imprison your soul, use your bones, or both.
The book has a logical magical system, and a grimdark atmosphere, horror-ish, which is in a stark contrast with Gideon’s positive and bubbly attitude. I loved both and have no objections.
However, there’s lots of death in the book and it’s sad, very sad. I didn’t like that part.
Overall, 5/5 but I do not recommend it because of the overall sadness.
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I’m waiting for the final installment in the series. It’s already been expanded into a four-part series instead of a trilogy, and now the fourth book has been pushed back by a good 2, maybe 3 years now and still no sign. Maybe one day.
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Some series just hang unfinished indefinitely. I’m trying to read part two but it’s hard, the language is heavy for me and it won’t be translated.
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Yes, I’m a little worried that this series might not get finished.
It’s not an easy series to read even if English is your first language (and I shudder to think how hard I’d find it in my second language!). The way she’s built the books is very interesting, but it does take a while to realise what’s going on. Book 2 in particular is a bit of a fever dream. I should reread it.
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This one is on my TBR! Glad you enjoyed it, I am really reluctant to pick it up due to what you mentioned in your review here. Maybe one day, when I’m mentally prepared, I will dive into it hah
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Yeah, don’t, not a happy book. I read the continuation right now and it only gets worse.
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Good to know! Not sure if I want to do this to myself. This kind of reminds me of Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. I kinda want to read it, but at the same time, I am like Nahhhh…
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I stopped reading the fourth wing series having the reasonable expectation where it’s heading.
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Yeah, it was not what I expected it to be either. I like the first book and was expecting the second one to be more politically oriented and explain some other stuff, like her brother and his ordeal, given it ended on a cliffhanger about him.. but alas, I stand corrected…
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Good turn out to be bad, bad turn out to be good, the main two characters are deeply in love but cannot be together.
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Exactly!
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