The Black Key

OKAY GUYS EXCITING DAY EXCITING TIMES.


WARNING: f you haven't read the first three lone city books this may contain spoilers for them


i finally got the fourth lone city book. after months of waiting for it to be published. the countdown clock has hit zero. i may cry. now to recap the jewel series (which i reviewed earlier go check it out) takes place in a world where the royalty must use surrogates to have children and these surrogates have powers called auguries but really they are like avatar airbender powers when they unleash them fully. so the surrogates get treated like actual crap its not okay and the whole hierarchy social system in this world is pretty well for lack of better phrasing its shat. so these surrogates and companions and everyone who got the short end of the stick here decide its time for a rebellion because why the hell not they have nothing left to lose! the book follows the main character violet as she sneaks back into the hell she escaped to save her little sister who was taken in her place. so the duchess of the lake has the pretty effed up plan to take power and what not. basically in this book you see the uprising of the lower class people and how the surrogate embrace their true powers and use them to fight. so i over all enjoyed this book as yall know i read this series in the beginning of the summer and have been waiting for the final installment for SO LONG. so this was exciting. keep in mind i have been dreaming about how this series was going to end for MONTHS. MONTHS PEOPLE. i imagined the twisted ways our characters could make it through this (or not make it through this). and when i read this final book after all the build up i was kind of let down. the ending was a bit generic and predictable and to be honest i was kind of sad. but at the same time i realized i set the bar higher than the druggies at my school so. still it was very predictable no plot twists nothing surprising so there's that. all the characters are pretty much the same violet is protective of her family and makes a lot of split second screw it decisions that can be pretty reckless but also very brave. her boyfriend is mentioned like twice. what was his name again? idk they said it maybe two times. he pulls a "i want to be a hero" at the beginning of the book goes rogue runs of to save some people and we don't hear from him till the end of the book. so if you like him you wont like this. so the battle s subpar the whole book pretty much builds up to this fight scene and the tension is sooooo high and then the battle sucks. it doesn't make much sense and honestly the more i think about it the more pissed i get. so screw you battle. this book was a bit of a downer but it was nice to have closure it was a mediocre book so i wouldn't recommend it but at the same time if you like me HAVE to know how it ends sffr through and find out its not that bad. more reviews coming :))
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