5★ 3🌶 I finished Den of Blades and Briars by LJ Andrews. This is book seven in the nine book series The Broken Kingdoms. This book is fabulous. This whole series is fabulous. There are four kingdoms North, East, South and West. There are Fae, humans and all other sort of creatures. The magic system is very complex but is explained and compounded upon with each subsequent book. The complex and detailed world that Andrews has built is really like no other fantasy world I've read about. The Viking influence is very strong and apparent. The fairy tale re-tellings take a back seat to the complex plots in each of these. This book in particular follows Ari to the Southern Kingdom where he has been charged to oversee the preparation of vows between Gunnar and Eryka. Gunnar is the son of Valen's sister and Malin's brother. Eryka is from the Southern Kingdom. All of these people and their stories are very intert...