My thoughts
A year ago, almost to the day, I read the first book in this series. It was one of the best books I read that year. It had me turning pages and wanting more. This one is the same. This one is the ending to the first book. What an ending it is.
This book picks up right where Fallen City ended. You miss nothing. It was fairly smooth.. Except I had to wait a year to read this one. To find out what happened with Maris and Theo. What happened to Lucas. To see if Maris and Lucas find their way back to each other.
I throughly enjoyed this book just as much as the first one. It made me weep a few times but hope was always there. The hope that the love between Maris and Lucas would prevail. There are a few things in this book that absolutely scared me. Took my breath away. Things I did not see coming.
The story of Maris and Lucas is a touching one. Beautifully written. The pain and the love feel so real. So deep. So honest. I loved the very ending too. It was perfection.
The audio with Dylan Reilly Fitzpatrick (Narrator); Leela Bassuk (Narrator), was so good. Well done and with such heart and feeling. They were the best I've heard in a while.
Thank you St Martins Press, Saturday Books, and MacMillan Audio for the arcs. I truly enjoyed this book as much as the first. Maybe just a little bit more.
5 stars
About
The war is just beginning.
When the city fell, Maris lost everything—her freedom, her future, and the man she loved. Now, with Luca trapped behind the gates of Isara, she makes a choice that will change her life forever: to don the armor of the enemy and march back into the heart of the city she was forced to flee. Every step brings her closer to Luca, but also deeper into the blood-soaked machine of war.
Inside Isara’s walls, Luca wrestles with a truth more dangerous than any sword. Once the symbol of the Loyal Legion, he has lost the thing he was truly fighting for—Maris. The shift of the war has left him to question whether he has become a pawn of the gods, and with betrayal lurking in every shadow, Luca must decide who he is: the dutiful soldier forged by rebellion, or the man willing to risk everything for love.
Across battlefields and through broken temples, Maris and Luca’s treacherous paths through Isara are set to collide. And when the gods demand sacrifice, it comes in a form no one could have expected.
When the city fell, Maris lost everything—her freedom, her future, and the man she loved. Now, with Luca trapped behind the gates of Isara, she makes a choice that will change her life forever: to don the armor of the enemy and march back into the heart of the city she was forced to flee. Every step brings her closer to Luca, but also deeper into the blood-soaked machine of war.
Inside Isara’s walls, Luca wrestles with a truth more dangerous than any sword. Once the symbol of the Loyal Legion, he has lost the thing he was truly fighting for—Maris. The shift of the war has left him to question whether he has become a pawn of the gods, and with betrayal lurking in every shadow, Luca must decide who he is: the dutiful soldier forged by rebellion, or the man willing to risk everything for love.
Across battlefields and through broken temples, Maris and Luca’s treacherous paths through Isara are set to collide. And when the gods demand sacrifice, it comes in a form no one could have expected.
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