The story obviously culminates in the big showdown for which we’ve all been waiting. Everyone is fighting their way north to help Aelin rid the world of the two foes who have been plaguing them for far too long. They are each involved in initial confrontations in a variety of locations. The story moves along slowly-well, maybe more deliberately than slowly-as we check in with a plethora of characters. Aelin calls in all favors to assemble warriors from her whole world to unite against Erawan and Maeve. Where do I even begin with a synopsis? You know every single surviving character we’ve met in books 1-6 and the novellas? Well, they all make an appearance in Kingdom.

I’m glad I stuck it out through the books I didn’t enjoy as much to see how Maas wrapped everything up. So how did I feel about Kingdom? It was good. And read more about why I loved Tower of Dawn and began to have hope for the finale here. The only book of the middle three about which I wrote a lengthy review was Empire of Storms, so check here if you’d like to read further details about my feelings. And the prose became a little over-the-top for my taste in these middle installments. I hated to think about young teens who fell in love with this series reading the language and adult situations in these subsequent books. In a nutshell, I did not like what Maas did to the relationships she had established or the mature turn the content took. Books 3-5 were very uneven for me for a variety of reasons.

I loved the first two books, the Assassin’s Blade novellas, and Tower of Dawn: the large, detailed world Maas developed and the distinct characters she created. You guys, I have mixed feelings about this series. I promise I’ll do better with brevity in my next review! 😉 This series and this book are too long to keep my review short. (I’ll put a few spoilers under the **SPOILERS** mark below.) And let’s just get this out of the way right now: I don’t think I can call this review a rapid one. No spoilers in the beginning of this rapid review of Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J.

The kingdom of ash