I think the series peaked at The Rose Society. What does it matter if I'm mad? I have a hundred ships. "Sometimes I can't tell if my madness is what's conjuring these images, twisting my confidence. Depending which version of the story you've heard.īlog | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Youtube | Store
Afterwards, Lu closes the story with a small folk tale from the future: the immortal story of the White Wolf, who may have been a courageous hero or a cruel villain. I thought the conclusion was inevitable, though it was no less perfect because of its predictability. Lu has gotten better at crafting those perfectly subtle scenes that tug at my heart strings far more than any melodramatic heartbreak ever could. The death toll creeps up and all lives lost hit me hard. Parts of this book are creepy other parts are sad, but without being overly-sentimental. I always kind of loved to hate him, and here I also kind of just loved him. Here, we see more of his story, which develops a complex layer to his loathsome character. In fact, it is the twisted, somewhat evil characters that drive this series. Lu ties us to her pain and suffering, so that we want her to succeed and find happiness even as she causes so much destruction.
Despicable, and yet so easy to sympathize with. Now a powerful queen, she rules with fear and pain.Īdelina, herself, makes this story so gripping. Would she redeem herself? Would she continue spiralling into darkness, becoming ever more consumed by her desire for power? As this book opens, we see just how far gone she is. The end of the last book threw a dark little twist at us and I couldn't wait to find out more about Adelina's state of mind in The Midnight Star. True, it pretty much ended the way I expected, the only way it really could, but the journey there has been bloody, twisted, and a whole lot of fun. After all the violence, emotions and drama of this series, this final installment was a good hundred pages too short for me (and it's not often I say that).
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