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A review by tagoreketabkhane31
Into the Dying Light by Katy Rose Pool
3.0
*Actual rating 3.5/5 stars*
The conclusion to the Age of Darkness trilogy from a debut author, "Into the Dying Light", the third book in the series picks up roughly two months after the end of the second book. With the group having been split, with Anton and the Wanderer together, and Jude, Hector and Hassan on the other end, and Beru, Ephyra captured by the Heirophant Pallas, the story opens up with the characters reassessing their motivations and options to stop the prophecy from coming true.
Eventually (as luck would have it) the characters are reunited, and this allows them to reassess, regroup, and also once again bicker as they escape from the Heirophant with a God in tow. As the group travels across the lands and attempt to deal with the myriad of conflicts that arise because of the miscommunication, angst, pinning, and of course general fatigue, the plot begins to narrow in scope, as the options to save the world and prevent the Age of Darkness from coming to fruition is limited in its ability to be stopped.
While the end of the book was able to close out all of the story lines in the series, one of my main gripes with this book was that it did not need to be this long - as the longest in the trilogy, many of the chapters just seemed following the same forms, and many of the characters didn't need that many chapters to talk about ideas and thoughts that other POVs covered.
While not the best, it is a good conclusion to a great series in YA.
The conclusion to the Age of Darkness trilogy from a debut author, "Into the Dying Light", the third book in the series picks up roughly two months after the end of the second book. With the group having been split, with Anton and the Wanderer together, and Jude, Hector and Hassan on the other end, and Beru, Ephyra captured by the Heirophant Pallas, the story opens up with the characters reassessing their motivations and options to stop the prophecy from coming true.
Eventually (as luck would have it) the characters are reunited, and this allows them to reassess, regroup, and also once again bicker as they escape from the Heirophant with a God in tow. As the group travels across the lands and attempt to deal with the myriad of conflicts that arise because of the miscommunication, angst, pinning, and of course general fatigue, the plot begins to narrow in scope, as the options to save the world and prevent the Age of Darkness from coming to fruition is limited in its ability to be stopped.
While the end of the book was able to close out all of the story lines in the series, one of my main gripes with this book was that it did not need to be this long - as the longest in the trilogy, many of the chapters just seemed following the same forms, and many of the characters didn't need that many chapters to talk about ideas and thoughts that other POVs covered.
While not the best, it is a good conclusion to a great series in YA.