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Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, 2); Hannah Kaner

1/13/2025

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I still love this series even if I didn’t fall head over heels for the second book in the Fallen Gods Trilogy as much as the first. In “Sunbringer” we see just how quickly Elo and Inara crumble without Kissen there to be their guiding backbone, and we see Skedi learn to resist the irresistible: offerings made to the gods. Each character battles more with their own betrayal and grief (except Kissen, who actually just battles fanatics most of the time) and just how destructive blind rage can be even with good intentions. We also get the added POV of Arren, which didn’t always feel that necessary to me, to show that while, yes some gods are actually good, there was still a good reason why the humans went to war with them to begin with. Namely, a lot of the remaining gods continue to manipulate and destroy those that follow them. It truly does show, mainly through the gods as the perfect embodiment, of how absolute power always corrupts absolutely. And while I genuinely loved that, I still didn’t love this as much as “Godkiller”.


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Godkiller (Fallen Gods, 1); Hannah Kaner

12/20/2024

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It’s taken me a minute to really organize my thoughts when it comes to “Godkiller”. And even then, they don’t seem very organized… Anyway, with a book with 4 (yes, four) POV characters, I wasn’t really expecting the story to be as good as the gorgeous cover suggested. Especially when one of the main characters is a very angry woman. I love angry women! But it’s so rare for an author to write an angry woman without her being unlikable as a character, or for them to have no morals when it comes to their vengeance and are therefore kind of the villain. Not so in this book! Kissen’s anger is righteous and beautiful and so constant that she’s learned to power through the trauma while not ignoring the atrocities she survived. I instantly loved her! But she’s only part of the reason why this is probably my favorite read of the year. Coming in at just under the wire for 2024, too.


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A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, 3); Sarah J. Maas

10/28/2024

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This book took me a lot longer to get through than the other two. Maybe because of the bible-like pages where this book was just so much longer than the others, or maybe it was because of the pacing this time around… Regardless, here we are, in the third book of the series, the final one of this particular story arc before we switch to a new POV with Nesta. And honestly, after “A Court of Wings and Ruin”, I’m very ready for another POV. Well, I want Nesta’s POV. I don’t necessarily care for any more of spooky Elain, either. Perhaps it’s this time in my life where the way Nesta processes her grief and trauma sings to me much more clearly than Feyre’s, but I am so hype for more of my mean girl Nesta after so much of Feyre using/needing her friends and allies to run a distraction for her so she can do something useful.


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Fourth Wing (The Empyrean Book 1); Rebecca Yarros

11/14/2023

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This book fell victim to the hype for me—both positive and negative. I was honestly expecting amazing things from this book because it has, I thought, so many of the things I adore: dragons and riders where the dragons choose who they want based on merit, and a heroine that no one expects to survive. I love everything about that. But the hype train on this sold me on the idea that this was THE book I had been waiting for all year and, while it had a strong start and an exceptionally strong finish, I soon found the middle to be lackluster, to feel like it was slogging through a checklist of tropes that are better suited in YA novels, where this book definitely does NOT belong (not a dig at YA either, just saying).


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A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, 2); Sarah J. Maas

8/12/2023

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I’m going to start by saying that pretty much everything “big” about this series has been spoiled for me long ago because of how insanely popular this series is, and all the incredible art that gets done for it. That’s no one’s fault but my own because I have no chill about those kinds of things. But, despite nothing really being a mind-blowing surprise, and considering the beast this book is in terms of length, I still DEVOURED it. Really, that should tell you everything you need to know and it’s all I’m really letting myself focus on when it comes to “A Court of Mist and Fury”.


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