The Last Mortal Bond: Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne 3

Actual Rating: 4.5
An all time favourite that is so amazingly good despite my grievances.

I'd like to start this review with a confession.
I hate(d) Adare hui'Malkeenian.
I wanted her to die a horrible death.

Adare isn't a bad human. She legitimately cares. I just hated every decision she made, every hypocritical word she said, every time she though she was so goddamn better than everyone else.

This book is beautifully dark. Valyn and some of Kaden's later chapters were beautiful and dark, and what's more it both of the have undergone numerous changes in themselves, in their worldview. Both of them have questioned themselves and everything they believed in. Adare in my opinion however, has barely changed. For all her high talk of being a better leader than everyone else, I don't see it. Except for in a few fleeting moments. Her speech at “Kaden's” funeral .

As for the ending, it wasn't what I wanted. After how things went at Rassumbur, I wanted a happy ending for Triste and Kaden together atop the Unhewn Throne, something I didn't think I'd want or even consider at halfway through.

Enough of my gripes.

How many times was I torn between rushing through this book to get to the stunning climax I knew had to be coming, or stopping to consider some of the amazingly quotable writing found especially in Valyn and Kaden's later chapters. RTC