This is one of my favourite series of all time and I am so happy to have read the finale! I can't believe it's actually over.

All of the extra world-building and expansion from book 2 came into play here as we follow our four main POVs as each try to prepare for the upcoming war in their own way.

This book is gripping, devastating, hopeful and humorous and I already want more from this world. The characters are flawed and realistic and I routed for all of them. There were definitely a lot of times where I just wanted to shout at one of the characters and shake sense into them but their actions made sense given their personality, history and the events in the book.

The final quarter or so of this FLEW by as everything built to a dramatic climax. I was hooked! I particularly loved how in this section we were given POVs from other characters too (my favourite being the cat) which was a really nice way of seeing what was going on elsewhere in the war in locations far away from our main characters.

I will never stop recommending this series to people! I find the world so fascinating and really hope we get more from this world in future, whether that be set in the future or the past, I'd be interested in either. There is so much scope for more books, this world and its history (and I'm sure future) are vast!

Thank you to Harper Collins and Netgalley for this eARC to review.

How did one singular book break every single sheet of my soul then repair it back together in about four chapters? I don’t know, ask the author of this bloody trilogy.

The perfect ending for the perfect trilogy, for once every book in it I rated five stars 🌟

Multi POV but easy to keep up with? Oh yes.

There’s even a POV from a cat, a bloody cat, it was amazing.

An epic battle and epic redemption arcs? High stakes and high fantasy? Yes yes yes


I cannot wait to own the physical copy when this book releases and I cannot wait to re read the trilogy and be broken and pieced together again. Reading this before release was truly wonderful to experience and I now envy every person who gets to read the magic of this trilogy for the first time

A great ending to this amazing trilogy. Book 1 will forever be a favourite fantasy. A fantastic build up to the final climax… such a fun read.

I've loved this entire series and this was a great conclusion. Honestly, after staying up most of the night finishing this I probably need time to digest it fully. However, it felt that the major threads were tied off. Anoor and Sylah's arcs were satisfying and the final battle which has been building for three books now was satisfying. Overall, I really enjoyed this and it's cemented the series as one of my favourites.

After eagerly awaiting the end to this trilogy for over a year (I was lucky enough to get an eARC of part 2 as well!) I'm sat here sort of dazed after the ending! A lot of the book was given to getting the POV characters back together so that an almighty battle could occur to overthrow the Zalaam and end the global problems such as floods, tidewinds etc that using bone marrow for powering magic had caused. Anoor went off with her grandmother at the end of book 2 as she was declared to be "The Child of Fire" - I love Anoor as a character but all throughout the series she has been shown to be incredibly naive and that doesn't stop in this book. Sylah has made her way back to the Warden's Empire after failing to defeat the Tannin and is feeling down in the dumps when she realises that Anoor has left to go off on a spiritual quest, this upsets Hassa who thought that Sylah should get on with the larger plan at hand of helping battle the people seeking to continue the history of segregation and servitude that has befallen people purely due to the colour of their blood. Jond is still hanging around with Kara and a cat he rescued (because sure, why not). So when the battle actually happens, down to it being largely essentially robot based the overall genre of the book seemed to flip - magic has been used for weapons throughout the series but now it's used en masse to have thousands of spider monsters wanting to trash the place and kill everything in sight as well as a SUPER ROBOT that will be powered by a sacrificial lamb. It was really strange to me that from something so historic fantasy feeling in the previous two parts that there was such a focus on these mechanical creations - I know they'd been introduced in book 2 but the scale of them was immense and what was the endgame for the Zalaam if they won? Just that they'd have cleared out all the non-believers and could just sit around praying to a God that really really enjoys sacrifices?! I did really enjoy the book, but did feel that section was quite jarring. I loved the extended POVs we got for the great battle, and I loved that there was a clear ending for all our main characters throughout the series.