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Song of Sorrows and Fate

5 🌟, 3 🌶
I finished Song of Sorrows and Fate by LJ Andrews Thursday evening.  This was book nine, the final book, in The Broken Kingdoms series.  It was a very good conclusion to a very very good series.  As I predicted in my last post when I was only one chapter in, there was a fair amount of carnage.  At least one side character from each realm perished.  The one that hit hardest for me was the one I mentioned.  There was also a death of a main character but I knew about that plot point from The Ever King, so I knew his death wasn't permanent.  Overall this book tied up all the loose ends and set up the "spin off" series very nicely.  The pacing was a little more jaunted because there were pivotal events happening in several places at once.  The book was broken up into sections to take this into account.  I rather liked that setup.  We also got POVs from a few of the sides characters which I also liked.  
I think my favorite book from the series was book eight; Reign of Stars and Fire.  Overall the series was excellent.  LJ is one of my favorite authors and this entire series sits in my top three favorite of all time.  Good enough, I want physical copies, if I'm stranded on a desert island I want this with my type reads.  If anyone is looking for spicy loose fairytale retelling, mildly dark fantasy, romance, with Vikings reads get on this series.  It starts out slow and mild and then builds up to be a powerhouse of writing.  It's been a fun two years getting through all of them.

I wasn't quite ready to leave the Broken Kingdoms world yet so I started reading These Wicked Lies.  This is a novella about Halvar and Kari.  It takes place in and amongst the events of book two or three.  There are a couple more of these novellas that tie in other side character stories.  I plan to read all of them.  I'm nearly done with this one; it's a little over 100 pages.  I especially like Halvar so I'm enjoying this and it's a fun look back to all these characters when they were at the beginning of the series.
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