um hi yes, I’ve been emotionally traumatized by this series & I’d like to seek financial compensation 🤧😭 and this installment y’all? I was fighting for my life from start to finish!!!!

if you’ve been sleeping on this series until now, don’t make the same mistake I did! 🤯 *stefon voice* this club has everything: romantasy, brooding morally grey MCs, savior trope, killer plot twists, found family that you refuse to let go of, epic world building, and in case you think that’s all, we’ve even got DRAGONS! 🙂‍↕️🐉

I’m absolutely in love with this universe and these characters - even if some of the actions and sequences had me scratching my head at times… diem, our queen of all queens, is a hot mess who is just finally accepting herself and making questionable decisions for the sake of the world - but I’m also kind of here for it? I’ll be screaming at her idiocy and then marching into battle alongside her the next chapter oops 

and LUTHER MY PRINCE! a lil lovestruck idiot too who didn’t do much rather than being eye candy 🥵 but I’m 500% here for that too… I just really hate the keeping secrets to protect one another trope!!! it ends all of the tension yes, but it almost never is actually for the best 

I just really love the theme throughout these three books that no one is inherently bad or good and that unity should always be the goal 🥹 I love when fantasy books reflect our world too 

the plot twists in this one were unmatched, even though I suspected most of them, and I loved seeing how everyone’s alliances shifted throughout the story! I absolutely need the fourth book ASAP 😭🖤

rating: 4 stars
wine pairing: columbia valley pinot noir