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Feb 04, 2019SpeedyLlama rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Okay, so I'll start this review by saying that I wasn't that psyched to read this book. The series just felt like it was getting progressively worse, after Glass Sword. Right before I read this series, I was reading the Throne of Glass series, and I HATED that in the last book you have to read like 400 pages of the main character being kidnapped and tortured by Queen Maeve. So, I certainly wasn't excited for another book like that. However, Aveyard wrote this book pretty well. Also, when I opened this book up, I was terrified. Why? Here's what I saw: Chapter 1. Mare. I was like, "MULTIPLE POV'S? NOOOOOOOOOO! I'M GOING TO HAVE TO SUFFER THROUGH LIKE HALF THE BOOK FROM CAL'S PERSPECTIVE! (at the time I hated Cal. Although, actually, now that I think about it, I still do.) I was holding my breath through the first few chapters, terrified that I was going to have to read from Cal's POV. However, when I flipped through it and saw that the other POV was Cameron, I almost screamed in delight. I actually did a happy dance all around my house. Cameron was my favorite character from the last book, and I was worried that she was going to be pushed off to be a background character, like the other Newbloods. However, her power sort of encouraged her to give some AWESOME quotes, and the chapters from her perspective were some of my favorites in the whole series. I also like reading from Evangeline's POV, and learning more about her character. However, one of the main things I didn't like about the book can be perfectly summed up by this Cameron quote: "I want to snap that my priority is to get the heat working in my barracks, not find out how many times Mare used the bathroom today..." I feel like this book was filled with a lot of useless information, especially from Mare's perspective. It could have easily been 100 pages shorter, just by cutting out a lot the descriptions of Mare's time in her room.