Jay Daze’s Reviews > The Empire of Gold > Status Update

All done except the alt epilogue and the excerpts. Which means I'm done right? The rest is chuff and distraction and the reason you need to jump your ebook to the end to find out where the REAL end of the book is. This one is 92%... though will still probably check out the rest that is tacked on at the end. Stupid book.

Big magic fest. But emotional/intellectual satisfaction?

Ali and Nahri trying to escape the cycle of violence,
neither Nahid or a Qahtani as king or queen. A council or committee? Prob a gathering of tribes rather than democracy I suspect...

Dara finds his relic and the Nahid crypt and Manizheh spills *some* beans about how she brought him back...

PIRATES! and Fiza the indentured shafit girl. Ali over taken by madrid power in their escape. Thank goodness for the oaretoethe head. Still we have the despair of going against the pull of history and institutional hatredeand violence. Is any 'happy' ending possible?

Part one ends with Nahri and Ali sailing up river to meet up with Ali's ma in magic world, and Dara more split with Manisheh as he lies to her, not mentioning he has seen Ali's sister N.

Light romance yearning and sorta triangle in this trilogy, actually a bit of star-crossed lovers light but not too pushed upon. More the question if these hatreds can ever be over-come or if they are structurally doomed. A sadly contemporary question.