A reaper at the gates - Sabaa Tahir

Hardcover, 463 pages

Published June 14th 2018 by HarperVoyager 

An Ember in the Ashes #3

Fantasy YA

Library

My thoughts:

Do these keep getting worse and worse? I am really disappointed since I liked book 1. Book 2 messed it up. This one made it a lot worse.

And this one. Ugh. Elias is boring.

Wtf does everyone love Laia and thinks she can save them?

The Shrike, what a stupid country. If you put children to be the second most powerful person and leader then you deserve to fail as a country. I get that she has trained all her life, but hell I am sure there is some 40 year old general left in this stupid world that could have done her job. Bloody idiots. Wtf does she know about anything?

Dunno why I even read it. Ok I do. I want to see how it ends and there is one bloody book left. Arghhhhhhhhh.

Conclusion:

Stupid series. One of the reasons that I do not buy YA fantasy. They all fail.

Blurb:
The Blood Shrike, Helene Aquilla, is assailed on all sides. Emperor Marcus, haunted by his past, grows increasingly unstable, while the Commandant capitalizes on his madness to bolster her own power. As Helene searches for a way to hold back the approaching darkness, her sister's life and the lives of all those in the Empire hang in the balance.

Far to the east, Laia of Serra knows the fate of the world lies not in the machinations of the Martial court, but in stopping the Nightbringer. But while hunting for a way to bring him down, Laia faces unexpected threats from those she hoped would aid her, and is drawn into a battle she never thought she'd have to fight.

And in the land between the living and the dead, Elias Veturius has given up his freedom to serve as Soul Catcher. But in doing so, he has vowed himself to an ancient power that will stop at nothing to ensure Elias's devotion--even at the cost of his humanity.