Athena’s Reviews > Broken Throne > Status Update

the last book's trauma. So overall, it was a good story and I am happy to close this series. It was good!

I think a good ending for Broken Throne would have been to talk about the last 2 pages of the book in greater detail, the pages where we go into the future to see Kilorn as a Premier, Mare and Cal married, Cam as a representative in Norta, Farely as a head in the SG with Clara helping in science research, etc. Going into detail in those aspects would have felt like closing this story better instead of reliving...

Every since character in the series has had some tragic backstory and/or experience but I hate how in Broken Throne instead of moving and talking past the grief it's been made to be the whole story, it ruins the "happily ever after" impact making the story more realistic but the book was never meant to be realistic, the spread of democracy can't be done with the exchange of letters.

Now that this series is over I can say that it was an overall 4/5. A lot of the book was redundant, most of the plot and fight scenes were reused which made me lose interest while reading some of it. I did not hate it but I do wished it was edited a little to remove the repetition. The story was amazing I loved the world she created. The character building however was very flawed it could have been better.

There never truly was a happy ending in store for Cal and Mare or anyone in the Red Queen. Calc still mourns the loss of his brother which is understandable, likewise with Mare. In addition to that Mare deals with the reminder of Maven in Cal. And Cal faces the reminder of Maven in Mare. To Cal Maven will always be Mavey his baby brother who was scared of the dark not the monster who enjoyed being in the dark.

The end of Steel Scars was soooo sweet so sibling core, Shade promising that while he lives he will always protect Mare which he kept, Shade even took bullets for her during her escape from her execution.

If Shade knew Mare and saw her in the Queens trail then in the many times that scarlet guard has been in the castle he must have been there too. He must have seen Mare irl in the castle too at some point and AHHH it breaks my heart that they never met in red queen she fully went on thinking he was dead and HE had to see her from afar.

I wish we got mote backstory on why Farely doesn’t like her father other than she just saying he’s a monster and that her mom and sister died because of him.

Diana is a captain, and she meets the Soldiers that are helping the Whistle rebellion and this is where Shade Barrow and Diana Farely start to become close. Due to Shades intelligence he can get a hold of good information to provide to Farely.

The conversations between Shade and Farely are so adorable and mature.

Steel scars
I’m gonna cry. Shade and Mare both worked with Mr. Whistle before they knew about it. They were both meant to help the rebellion.

Colonel Farely and Diana Farely hate each other because they are reminded of their family when they see each other. Colonel sees his wife and daughter in Diana while Diana sees her sister and mom.