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MY ⭐️ RATING: 4.25/5
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
THOUGH THE BATTLE TO SAVE HER PLANET IS OVER, THE WAR NEVER ENDS.
Hadrian Marlowe is newly a knight of the galaxy-spanning Sollan Empire: a hero who they say slew the alien Prince Aranata Otiolo in single combat; a man they say no man or xenobite can kill.
Acting on the Emperor’s orders, Hadrian has come to the desert planet Thagura and driven off the Cielcin invaders, rescuing in the process the Lady Gadar Malyan, Baroness of that entire world.
But not all the fighting is ended. Pockets of inhuman resistance remain on the desert world, and Hadrian the Halfmortal must soon do battle with not only the man-eating alien barbarians, but with something just as terrible: man’s own inhumanity to man.
MY REVIEW
While I did enjoy Queen Amid Ashes for what it was, as another story to read about Hadrian. This, to me, is the weakest of the series so far, but it’s also hard to live up to the high praise I’ve had for each installment of this series. QAA still has that same incredible prose that makes it so easy to consume, while also keeping that dark and tense story-telling that, even in these novellas, Ruocchio does such a phenomenal job of sucking me in to the story. I wasn’t sure what to expect going in, but I have a feeling that the events of this story are essential to the rest of the story, and may lead to some bigger problems for Hadrian down the road.
“With every threshold we cross we become someone new, for every place is new, and every hour, and with every moment we are changed. We may not step in the same river twice, nor with the same feet.”
I loved the fast-paced feel to this as the story and all of its secrets started to unfold as Hadrian and his crew battle Cielcin and uncover what more has happened on Thagura before their arrival. Though the new characters introduced were intriguing to say the least, there wasn’t much on the side of new or further character development with Had, the crew or the new characters that I’m used to seeing from Ruicchio. Even though Ruocchio hooked me and Samuel Roukin put on another great performance, there was just something about this that was more “it was good” than “it was great.” Still a very solid entry that I do feel might be a requirement to read.
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