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5 stars! *Will contain spoilers from Nevernight and Godsgrave
O’gentlefriends, how this review will contain quite a lot of expletives. You have been warned.
“Don’t fuck with librarians, young lady. We know the power of words.”
Thoughts: I don’t think I have a single coherent thought that can grasp how much I loved this book. I mean, what else could you expect at this point considering this trilogy easily became one of the absolute favorites by the end of book one, and reinforced with all of book two, and now *set in stone* with book three. But this review isn’t about the series as a whole it’s about Darkdawn.
Let me just bullet point everything I LOVED: (because there wasn’t anything I didn’t like)
Kristoff’s writing is bloody brilliant
His dialogue is witty and sarcastic and laugh-out-loud hilarious
The way he displays the different characters make each of them able to stand on their own in their own unique ways, but also come together with a rag-tag sense of camaraderie that makes you love each one of them, but even more when they band together
[see what I mean? Like did that even make sense?]
The plot does NOT LET YOU REST; twists and turns and even more twists and theme some loop-de-loops to through you for a loop while you’re reading
The magic has generally taken a “back seat” to the assassin-ness of Mia, but in this finale, Mia’s Darkin abilities are brought all the way to the forefront and she just kills it all around with learning new ways to work her darkness and shadowing stepping and her growing power from true dark. It’s was fucking magnificent.
The battles were high risk and kept you on the edge of your seat and not a single battle was easily won. Kristoff made you work through the whole book to finally get the pay off that was that fantastic ending. Also, the goriness was top notch, not overdone or underdone and Mia’s bloodthirsty-ness was added into the plot at just the right places
Speaking of which, that ending was EPIC. Heart wrenching. Mind fucking. World ending. It was an ending that could NOT disappoint. Kristoff did not in any aspect of this book disappoint.
And by the last page I couldn’t even count how many times I cried or wanted to from sheer joy of reading this book or from actual sadness in the story
Some other random things I really LOVED:
The footnotes were even funnier!! How is that possible?! The commentary and extra tidbits in the footnotes is one of my favorites parts of this series
Mia’s story is narrated from page one by some “all-knowing” being and you finally find out in Darkdawn, but you don’t just find out... It’s plays a whole role in this book’s plot and it’s glorious
I loved EVERY. SINGLE. Side character. Definitely the old ones from past books, but also the newly introduced in this book.
My only final thought: What the fuck is Cloud’s real name though?!
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