I will never be the same. 

This book. This series. It destroys.

This whole book I was trying to figure out how it ends. As the whole nation is pulled apart and shattered… who wins? How does it get put back together? How do you win this?

And the answers to all of those… broke me. Because of course it did. 

There are no winners in war. 

“She was a goddess. She was a monster. She’d nearly destroyed this country. And then she’d given it one last, gasping chance to live.”

And she broke my heart while doing it. 🥺 

I have so much more to say. About the characters we followed through all of this. The ones who deserved more, the ones who we never got answers for, but I’m trying to keep this spoiler free so. 

I can’t remember the last time a series so fully emotionally destroyed me. The writing, the characters, the ethical conundrums… and the ending. With hope, with sadness, with heartbreak, with love…

Just read this.