This books was darling! Just what I’ve come to expect from Ross. She has such a flowy and poetic writing style! 

Spoilers Ahead 

This book kept me on my toes and though I guessed many of the major events how we got there rarely panned out how I expected. 

The time that spent at the front vs the time spent back in Oath felt like two entirely different books. Not in a bad way, just that there is a notable tone shift. 

I love that Dacre’s is so charming, but every now and then his mask will slip and you’ll see who he really is. 

Roman’s amnesia got fixed WAY faster than I expected. I thought that would be an issue they spent the whole book fixing, not fix it in the first half. But it is what it is. 

Tragically I think Forest was wasted as a character. I spent the whole book convinced that he and lieutenant Shaw were the same person. Or at the very least he was an agent sent to oath for the purpose of delivering Roman’s propaganda to the Gazette. See in my mind what happened was they send Forest the second Alouette so he could magically get the articles he delivered. There are also moments where Roman COULD have seen Forest but them never does. So I thought for sure I was on the right track! At the very least I thought he MUST have been apart of the Graveyard. Like he was running them from out of the mechanic shop casue he knew what it was like to fight for BOTH gods and wanted to get rid of both of them. But nope. He’s just kinda… superfluous. He really doesn't DO anything. In either book really. He’s just kinda… there. He was so suspicious and sneaky and for what? His story I was incredibly disappointed in. 
 
Overall I loved it. I liked how killing the big bad wasn’t the end of the story. They still had to deal with the realities of the war and how it changes a society.