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Every single one of these traumatised icons deserves the peace they fought, sacrificed and died for. The family these characters formed is adorable and chaotic and hilarious. I’ll miss them all dearly. Long live the True Queens. Forever may they reign. In this world or the next.

Tory is a brilliant scheming bitch: defying the stars again and rallying an army of the dead to fight once more, finally ending this war. Shocking everyone in brilliant fashion with the return of the Savage King. She managed to bring her family together which is not only adorable but also hilarious: Hail continues to call Darius poor choice (while secretly being a proud father) while he calls Lance good choice.

This section is so bittersweet. Everyone’s preparing to die, spending what they believe as their last moments with the ones they love so dearly. Trusting each other to fight for freedom and protect them with everything they have. Rallying their power with words of war and hope.(I love how these books perfectly present places and people embodying a home and a family)

I love this whole book: between battles of war everyone finding fun in drunk pitball, Darius and Tory’s chaotic coffee fuelled marriage, the creation of Darcy’s ring, Caleb fighting for love with Seth and becoming moon mates, this found family protecting in each other in every way thinkable, knowing Hail and Melissa and Azriel are proudly watching their children fight for peace.

I love seeing my queens embrace their power, and fighting like warriors together. It’s so cute them going from having no family to having such a large extended one as well as Darius and Lance continuing to be the cutest characters ever.

The description in this book is actually incredible, with every passage crafted just for the readers to feel that their connection to books is being recognised in a magical way, similar to how we feel it in our heads.

Seth doesn’t get enough credit for his emotional intelligence, he was so cute with little Luca, it was adorable.

Gabriel’s perspective is actually heartbreaking, he literally has the weight of the entire world on his shoulders and he’s terrified of disappointing everyone, even while still healing from pain. (though it’s made slightly more bearable by Leon and his ridiculously hopeful comments that overpower all their fears.)

Despite getting actually shivers at learning there is an unbalance of fate and the guild stones are needed once more to right it and all the other magical bullshit prophecies I’m more interested in Darcy and Lance getting freaky in an ancient library, being a cute nerdy book couple pissing everyone off and Lance not giving a crap.

Finally all twelve guild stones reunited! I freaking love Lance as Guild Master and just being an absolute nerd but some of the best parts of this mini quest were seeing some really underrated duos together. Lance and Seth (Moon friends forever). Darius and Darcy banter and bittersweet conversations about The Veil. Caleb and Tor. And all the nicknames they have for each other (little shrew, Phoen).