Though Kelsea is still definitely the main character, the perspective followed several journeys which let us explore more of the world and spend time with other characters, most of whom were people who I had wanted to see more of in the previous book.

The first thing I noticed about Fate of the Tearling, is that it felt far less a single character story.

As all things converge around Kelsea, truths will be revealed and fears confronted as the fate of the Tearling hangs in the balance. However, nothing the Red Queen nor her soldiers could do to Kelsea is worse than the visions Kelsea is experiencing, visions of Katy Rice, born just after the crossing, and how she sees the utopian community of William Tear fracture around her under the influence of the charismatic and power hungry Row Finn.Īs Mortmesne’s rebels and Kelsea’s own guards mastermind a rescue, the Red Queen finds herself reliant on Kelsea for information, not about the sapphires, but about the oncoming threat of Row Finn and his dark army, who promise a devastation worse even than Mortmesne. Bargaining both her freedom and her magical sapphires for a three year stay of the Mort invasion, she is now on her way to Mort Mesne with the Red Queen’s retreating army. Kelsea Glynn has sacrificed everything for her people. Before getting into my thoughts about Fate of the Tearling, bear in mind this review will necessarily contain spoilers for the rest of the series. Unfortunately, those expectations were catastrophically dashed. Also, with the second book improving upon the first, there was reason to expect an upswing in quality and an epic conclusion.

Invasion of the Tearling left me pretty much in the same state as its predecessor, admitting that the book had its issues, but still forced by the cliff-hanger ending and driving style to continue to see what happened.

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