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I think I was being generous with my rating of the other books in the series. Obviously, 3 stars is still good, but I don't think the rest should have had 4 stars. I love a good world building that's probably why I was giving the rest that rating but this is the 7th book in the series and I'm getting tired. Nothing ever goes how they wish. Like, one good thing happens, then 200 bad ones. It's getting tiring. I just want to end it already. The 3 stars are for good worldbuilding and good character-building (? idk if it's called like that)

inkdrinkers's review against another edition

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dark emotional funny medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

"Wow, that was dramatic."

Picking up immediately after the events of Zodiac Academy: Fated Throne, we have pain and trauma and fire and this review isn't going to be very professional because I'm getting tears on my keyboard okay let's GO.

I feel like this is really three books smashed into one, I can definitely see the parts where the sisters were trying to wrap up certain aspects of plot with the intent for eight to be the final part in the story - but I also can't be mad at them for breezing over certain aspects? I don't even know if anyone else noticed this, but as I read I realized that there's not been a single scene I've missed reading. Sometimes I'll pick up a book and it will mention something happening off-page and I'll get a gut-reaction of sadness that the author didn't gift it to me - I never feel that about these books.

I get every single scene I want, I get more than that, and while that might make some people mad with how utterly huge they are; I love it. I feel satisfied, if not emotionally wrung out like a sponge letting my tears drizzle on some sad plant. Because for every time this book made me break down into sobs (it did, a lot) it also made me laugh so hard that my stomach cramped, and laugh so hard that more tears fell.

I don't know what they put in these books to make me love them this much, but I'm glad they did. I love these characters fiercely. I love this series fiercely. I don't need it to be written like War and Peace, I just want to wrap myself in the world and the characters that feel like people to me.

And yeah, that's a quote from my mother-FREAKING husband at the top who appeared like a radiant sunbeam in the night to set my heart aflame once again. MINDY 4 EVA BITCHES.

Content warnings: all of them, idfk. I cried. (just kidding, there's war, death, violence, gore, and sexual assault)

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maggiereadsbooks's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

3.25

robynrappaport's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

daisy222de's review against another edition

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dark emotional fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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