A review by rinku
Bestickt mit den Tränen des Mondes by Elizabeth Lim

adventurous dark tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

 Unravel the Dusk is the finale of the Spin the Dawn series, and I gave this book 3.5 stars – half a star more than its predecessor. 

I really didn’t make many notes while reading this book. This may be because it’s over one and half year ago that I’ve read the first novel and I wasn’t hence too attached to the characters and the plot anymore. After the events of the first book, Maia is returning to the palace where the wedding of Sarnai was prepared. After a terrible accident, Maia has to flee and find a cure for her curse while also trying to save the whole kingdom. 

There were many things about the book that I enjoyed: the dramatic plot, its pacing, the writing style, and the different settings. They were not perfect but still nice to read about. For example, some moments didn’t make so much sense, like the fact that
Spoilerno one would notice that Maia pretends to be Sarnai or that the emperor would not kill her when he’s supposedly so cruel
. I was also not the biggest fan of the finale with
SpoilerMaia suddenly being able to fly. It could’ve been just more epic, and the ending was too much a happy ending for my taste
. 

I generally liked all the characters, especially Sarnai and Maia. It was interesting to see how much Maia changed because of being taken over by Baldur. It was kinda cliché though that Maia would lose her memories when he would completely take over her. 

There were some references in Unravel the Dusk to Lim’s newest book, Six Crimson Cranes, and I wonder if both play in the same universe. If yes, I’m even more interested to read it since the world and its lore the author created was so great. 
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