He deserved it, plus how he came about that victory was beautiful. I’m glad Kip was able to get one up on Andross, too. I was super happy to see one last game of Nine Kings in this book. Plus you learn so many answers during these Nine Kings card scenes to questions we’ve had since book one. I loved seeing his flashback scenes because I loved seeing his relationship with Felia. He’s such a divisive character, completely despicable but also respectable, and his character arc across this series is truly incredible. That personality change was too abrupt to feel natural and made me not like Kip’s POV as much as I used to, which is sad.Īnother surprise for me was how much I grew to like Andross in this book.
He has become a military commander and lost a lot of his fun-loving personality that we saw in the earlier books. In the transition from book four to five, which occurred back to back with no time gap in the story, Kip seemed to have aged emotionally about ten years. Surprisingly, I didn’t enjoy reading from Kip’s perspective in this book as much as I did in the other books. There are *MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD* for the whole series.įirst I want to talk about the characters. Maybe some content could have been cut from there to make room for all the questions we needed answers for but didn’t get. The first 300 pages or so were rather slow-moving, and I honestly can’t remember what happened in them. We do learn a lot more about chi and paryl in this installment though, which is really nice because the other four books focus on the main colors in the spectrum and give us very little information about the outer-spectrum colors. This book has a lot of talking about drafting but not a lot of actual drafting in the beginning. There was less drafting and character relationships and more planning and “important conversations.” I remember having so much fun with the first four books in this series when I read them earlier this year, but this book didn’t feel the same. The beginning of this book had me feeling like it was much bleaker and more political than the other books. I am very conflicted about my feelings for this book because what we got was great, but there was also so much that we didn’t get that we needed, and that was the biggest detriment to this book, sadly. I would still 100% recommend this series, but know that this conclusion will not answer all the questions you’ve gathered up throughout the five books and will leave you wondering why certain details weren’t included in the narrative even though their answers felt necessary to the story. It was good, very good even, but the ending left me wanting more and disappointed me for a few reasons I’ll talk about below. This was my most anticipated book of the year.
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