6⭐️1🌶 I finished Ballad for the Broken last evening and needed a good night's rest to collect my thoughts on this one. It was amazing, no question about it. It sent me through an emotional roller coaster. The MMC and the FMC Draven and Lyra are both complex well thought out characters. They share similar trauma and worked through it together in book 1. This book starts out with them separated. Lyra was taken by *redacted* who on the surface seems like a bad guy. Well, he is fighting his own demons and after Lyra spends a lot of time with him, she comes to understand him at least a little bit better. Slight spoiler ahead. Lyra and Draven are reunited, a group of them from Bethara are actually, and its looking really great at least for a little bit. I know how these things go and I knew it wouldn't last. I seriously contemplated stopping at the 85% mark because the band was back together and everyone had time t...