The Bone Shard War

To be fair i had a massive reading slump in the beginning but after i got throu the first ten or so chapters this book was not anymore just frustrating me. The build up was long the finale was a clash and the aftermath… oh boy… but read for yourself. I wasnt expecting most of it, so oviously I enjoyed that very much. And i still want an Ossalen!!!

After I loved the previous two books, this was quite a letdown. The plot meandered from beginning to end and I cannot recall one single thing that left me in awe. The characters, most of whom I really liked, couldn't save this either. The end felt too sugarcoated as well. But I do like Stewart's writing style, hence the two stars.

This book feels so very essential human. Throughout the trilogy, we as readers are constantly confronted with questions what makes us “us”, how we take set backs in our lives and how far we are willing to go. I was first taken aback a little because there is a large time jump of 2 years from the last battle on Gaelung to this, and lots has happened. Somehow, I wished these happenings would have been part of the story and not just in flashbacks. But that would probably have made it way too long and badly paced. Our MCs are all various shades of grey and no one is beyond redemption or always acting angel-y like good. For me this is the part that memes the story so compelling, how and why they act as they do. This instalment gave us even higher stakes as before and delivers. It is no cookie-cutter story of either just drama or just sunshine and rainbows and unicorns - but just like real life, brutal but with a glimmer of hope.