They are each involved in initial confrontations in a variety of locations. The story moves along slowly-well, maybe more deliberately than slowly-as we check in with a plethora of characters. Aelin calls in all favors to assemble warriors from her whole world to unite against Erawan and Maeve.

Where do I even begin with a synopsis? You know every single surviving character we’ve met in books 1-6 and the novellas? Well, they all make an appearance in Kingdom. I’m glad I stuck it out through the books I didn’t enjoy as much to see how Maas wrapped everything up. So how did I feel about Kingdom? It was good. And read more about why I loved Tower of Dawn and began to have hope for the finale here. The only book of the middle three about which I wrote a lengthy review was Empire of Storms, so check here if you’d like to read further details about my feelings. And the prose became a little over-the-top for my taste in these middle installments. I hated to think about young teens who fell in love with this series reading the language and adult situations in these subsequent books. In a nutshell, I did not like what Maas did to the relationships she had established or the mature turn the content took.

Books 3-5 were very uneven for me for a variety of reasons. I loved the first two books, the Assassin’s Blade novellas, and Tower of Dawn: the large, detailed world Maas developed and the distinct characters she created. You guys, I have mixed feelings about this series. I promise I’ll do better with brevity in my next review! 😉 This series and this book are too long to keep my review short. (I’ll put a few spoilers under the **SPOILERS** mark below.) And let’s just get this out of the way right now: I don’t think I can call this review a rapid one. No spoilers in the beginning of this rapid review of Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J.

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