it is with a heavy heart and sorrowful soul that i have to rate this book anything lower than 5 stars (i actually may change and round up because a 3 feels sooo harsh at the moment), because this series has been absolutely stellar up until this point. i get that a story is meant to have opposition. a character grows and develops through it and because of it. without opposition, there would be no resolution. but i also feel that it is important for a character to have hope and to have success alo...

I hope Helene murders all the hateful peasants, rules the world and finds someone worthy of her greatness.

“Curse this world for what it does to the mothers, for what it does to the daughters. Curse it for making us strong through loss and pain, our hearts torn from our chests again and again. Curse it for forcing us to endure.” Look, I'm gonna do something a bit weird here and start with the negatives I REALLY, really enjoyed reading this book but at the same time I had some niggling little issues that I was waiting for some action on and it never came. I need to talk about them. this is an excel

“There are worse things than death,” I say. “Shall we learn about them together?” 4 1/2 stars. When it comes to heart-racing action scenes, I cannot think of another YA author who does it better than Sabaa Tahir. She plunges you into the chaos almost immediately and once again, for the third book in a row, she keeps the drama and bloodshed coming until the very end.The ONLY reason I rated this book slightly lower than An Ember in the Ashes and A Torch Against the Night is that I felt like Eli

Devastating and excellent. Can't wait for the final installment! My full booktalk discussion is up on my youtube channel (polandbananasbooks). =)

whyyyyy, sabaa, whyyyyyyy???(aside: mwahahahahahaha)you know how they tell you that good things come to those who wait? i never bought into this school of thought bc i'm pretty much veruca salt when it comes to books. but, holy hell, is A REAPER AT THE GATES worth it. i was immediately drawn back into this darkly dangerous world and all its amazing characters. each POV is distinct and painstakingly wrought. the action is intense, and the angst made my heart hurt for days afterward. it's smart, s...

Me: Nothing can be worse than the Tower of Dawn coverA Reaper at the Gates: *exists*#WhatTheFuckAn Ember in the Ashes is one of my favorite series ever. I don't deserve this.

The immediacy of Tahir's writing remains spot-on, but the beautiful prose found in An Ember in the Ashes is absent in the third installment of the series. Too much of A Reaper at the Gates reads like filler, and the narrative lacks compelling focus with characters seemingly running in circles. The plot hinges on a reveal that's been blazing red since the first book in the series. The Nightbringer remains a tool used for narrative convenience, and Tahir's continued underutilization of one of the

Well, it seems like I’m in the major minority here. Three books in and I’m still not attached to the characters. If any of them had died in this book, I would’ve shrugged it off. Am I to blame? I don’t think so, since there barely was any backstory or development given to those characters. Constant action, non-stop movement and not enough focus on our main characters. I had no option but to not form any attachment, since we weren’t given any breathing room for the plot to slow down and for it to...

Sabaa’s writing, characters, and storytelling deserves all the stars in the world. RTC! ******Hey guys! So I'm seeing lots of turmoil in my feed but I thought I'd pop in. I'm not crazy about switching covers/etc in a series either, but before you go off on a huge tangent, go check out Sabaa's reasoning for the changes. My thoughts on the design/etc don't matter, and I happened to adore the old covers SO much, but this woman did a cool thing with her influence, and I'm so glad I know why! Link be...

THIS COMES OUT THIS YEAR. Holy moly, time has passed rather quickly. But I'm still not happy about the cover style change. Hmph. Meaningly, my torturous, never-ending wait. Because freaking 2018.

5 Sweet bleeding skies STAR'S “The sword point is my priest. The dance of death is my prayer. The killing blow is my release.”“Hope is stronger than fear. It is stronger than hate.” Holly Mother!!! I don't even know what to say right now! I am completely speechless. 'A Reaper at the Gates' is utterly freaking brilliant! BRILLIANT! I was awestruck from beginning to end and I sure as hell didn't want to put it down. It's hypnotizing, once the pages started turning I couldn't stop. I have so many e...

oooh, goodreads choice awards semifinalist for best young adult fantasy 2018! what will happen?this book is an inch-and-a-half thick and i was bored and shocked by my boredom until maybe the last quarter-inch. i’d been looking forward to reading this tremendously, and when i finally carved out the space to get to it, i dove in like a fox in the snowbut my elation was dampened by the slog of it, and i got sadder and sadder as the book refused to be as awesome as the first two. it’s very convolute...

Such a good series through and through.

"Ghosts, it turns out, love to gossip."I am so relieved! Considering what I had expected based on the first book, the second book -A Torch Against the Night- did not deliver the enjoyment I had hoped for, which left me feeling a little uneasy as to whether or not this series would work out for me. But A Reaper at the Gates fixed all that, bringing me back from the status of 'undecided' to 'likely fan'. I liked this way better than the second!“Wights”—I raise my eyebrows—“are sweet?”The main-plot...

Helene Aquilla could punch me in the face and I would thank her for her time

It’s amazing how we willingly pay to be traumatized,  but honestly I’d do it all over again if I could. I have to say, there is no one in the writing game quite like Sabaa Tahir when it comes to opening up EVERY book with heart-pounding intensity. With that being said I was already terrified to start this book knowing that and also because, let's face it, Sabaa is also not the kindest to her characters. When I read the first 80 pages of this book I NOPED and put it down so fast not because it wa...

DAMN .That was sexy af. Reading Vlog here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEldQ...5 STARS ALL THE WAYTwitter | Bookstagram | Youtube |

Spoiler Free Review :)”Pain is a choice. Succumb to it and fail. Or defy it and Triumph.”Words cannot express how blissfully happy I am with this. I mean for me it was everything that I could of wanted. I was wondering where the story would go after A Torch Against the Night We got updates in what had happened throughout the time on the travels and nothing was left un-said. This time around there’s so much foreboding and it’s setting up the final book perfectly. We see characters grow from stren...

im trying to imagine how it would feel to finish a book and NOT BE WORRIED ABOUT THE FATE OF MY BABIES IN THE FINAL BOOK👏LET👏ELIAS👏AND👏LAIA👏BE👏HAPPY👏ᵖˡᵉᵃˢᵉ4.5 stars buddy read with this reading disaster machine~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~what the heck happened to the matching cover designs????the title is 💯💯💯👌👌👌💯💯 but the cover is so OFF AND NOW IM SAD AND CONFUSED WHY DONT WE HAVE MATCHING COVERS!!!!. . . also. . .is anyone gonna mention how gorgeous elias looks??!?!?!!