5 ⭐ CW: (provided by author) torture, violence, PTSD, adult hitting a child, misogyny, parental loss mention, death (people and horses), grief, cursing, sexual content 

A Spark of Death and Fury is the fourth and final book in the Apollo Rising Quartet by Nicole Bailey. This series is everything! It's right up there with how I feel about the Zodiac quartet. It sucked me in with amazing, Lovable, and diverse characters, then ripped my heart out multiple times, stomped on it, then gave me a "there, there" head pat at the end. Nicole is paying for all my emotional damage for the rest of our lives 🤣😭. 

We pick up after the events of the previous book (spoilers for previous books ahead). The Spark is gone, Zeus is dead, the high gods have fallen, and Apollo isn't dead. Hyacinth is in charge of getting Apollo's nephew, Ixion, home to Niria, but they are captured and taken away as bait for Zephyrus to kill Apollo and become the new reigning god. Hyacinth is tortured as he tries to protect Ixion from Zephyrus' cruelty, and Ixion's experience is heartbreaking. Cyn was the one who went through it in this book. 

Meanwhile, Pip is trying to figure out how to run a country that doesn't respect women ruling, though she is more fit than the closest male heir. Pip and Val finally get a win in this book. We have more of Temi and Orion banter that turns into tragedy (which is frankly, rude). Temi and Apollo plan to disperse the Spark and end the reign of high deities and return the gods to being elemental beings instead.