The Skull Throne

For this fourth installement of the Demon Cycle serie, I have begun with some stress because I didn't remember a lot of the third book. The first part gives me reason : i had some issues remembering names and titles of Krasian people... too many people and too many relations between them.

Hopefully, the next parts were better and easier to follow. I'm not giving any details because it could be spoilers but I'm just saying I like the multiple POVs, the battle, the court plotting and the characters.

AND THE END !!!??? So much plot twist, cliffhangers and so many deaths. Can't wait for the fifth and last book

Executive Summary: I enjoyed this one, but it spent very little time dealing the the Demon war.

Audiobook: I've been enjoying this series in audio, and this book was no different. So much so that I'm simply copy/pasting my comments from the last book:

Pete Bradbury once again does a great job. He's still a bit on the quiet side, but I think he's a great fit for this series. He does a few voices/accents and reads with good inflection.

Full Review
This book was a bit different from the last three. Those books mixed past and present and politics and war. This book had a few flashbacks, but easily the fewest of all the books so far.

This book is almost all politics. I enjoyed it nearly as much as the others, but I do feel like too much time was spent on subplots and not the main plot of the demon battles.

I enjoyed some of the new characters, including the new flashback character, but I'm awful with names and these names are especially difficult for me, so I couldn't tell you her name. There was also some really good character development of the returning characters as well.

There wasn't as much world building in this book as in the past. Most of it dealt with expanding on the politics of men set-up in the previous books. There is still a lot of magic, but very little new. I feel like there is still a lot we're not seeing, but with so little focus on the demons I guess it's not too surprising.

Overall I enjoyed this book, but I would have liked to see a little less subplot and a little more main plot. Still, all the events of this book will likely play a big role in final book, but I'd have liked to see it balanced more like the last three books were.