The Bone Shard War (The Drowning Empire)

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While she's grown a lot since the first book, I think she still has a long way to go and a lot to learn. She also had a very important encounter with Jovis sometimes during that period but we, readers, are robed of that scene. Something that really surprised me is that there are characters that I detested in the other books that I grudgingly came to appreciate in this one. How do you know who to root for if they all have valid arguments and all appear to be heroes to themselves? I love “secret histories” as a trope, there’s always a lesson there; are you protecting people by hiding the truth of things, or ultimately are you just going to make things worse?

I really feel Stewart does a fantastic job here; Lin, Jovis and Mephi have always been my favourites and though by the end of this book their journey broke me, I was thoroughly captivated by their story arcs and how certain aspects had come full-circle from book one. Anywho, it started off rough, with a really jarring two-year time jump that took a hot minute (and several jump scares) to settle into, but when it got rocking I was hooked.

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I never felt the characters and their journeys had moved on too far for me to lose track of things in those two years.