War Storm

oh...
I'm done...
That's it...
That's the end...
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i wasnt ready


Okay but in all seriousness, I genuinely really enjoyed this. Aveyard's storytelling and writing was still amazing as ever and I stand by my statement that she just has a way of making you love and care for characters, even if you don't want to...

cough cough MAVEN cough cough

However, there were just a couple things which I wish were written a little differently.

I wish that there was a little bit more trepidation on Queen Cenra's part before just turning around and retreating. I get that we were in Iris's perspective and that getting Cenra's also would've just been over the top, but I think Iris would've been able to read her pretty well, at least well enough to understand her hesitation and convey that to the reader. Sort of watching her go back and forth between deciding whether to stay and fight or to retreat and get home safely.

Also, I do sort of wish that Kilorn was with Mare just a little bit more throughout this book. Considering that he's her best friend, I think that her feelings towards him should've been stronger. Ya know, a platonic love, platonic soul-mates. I think that the scenes he was in were sort of brushed over and he didn't matter a ton.

Another thing was that parts of the final battle did feel a little underwhelming. I don't mean between Maven and Mare, that was wild. I mean the BIG battle. I feel like a lot of the scenes were a bit slowed down and could've been written w a bit of a faster pacing. I also think that the writing was focusing on the small parts of the battle as opposed to the mass destruction that was happening around them.

But those didn't really take away my enjoyment, though.

Also, I was thrown for a loop w the amount of people that died in this book. And I don't mean that so many characters that I loved died, I mean almost no one died. I was seriously expecting a massacre of all the characters I loved.

All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed this and I liked this as a conclusion to the series but it fell just a little flat for me, especially the last ~100 pages of the book.

But the first ~500 were still phenomenal, right on par with the rest of the series.