Jaclyn’s Review: Ember Queen by Laura Sebastian

Ember Queen (Ash Princess #3)
written by Laura Sebastian
published by Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2020

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Did I enjoy this book? I feel like I have been waiting FOREVER to finish this series! This is the final book in this YA fantasy series. Overall, I thought this was a very satisfying ending. Theo got what she wanted, Blaise got what he wanted, Soren got what he wanted, and the reader got what they wanted. I appreciated the battle scenes and the drama they produced. I struggled a little bit with the treatment of the Kalovaxians at the end of the story, but I reminded myself that this is a made-up world and tough decisions needed to be made. Haha!

Would I recommend it? This book was a great ending to the entire series. Obviously if you have invested the time to read the first two books in the series, I encourage you to read this final book. Now that the series is complete, I can also recommend the series as a whole. I will warn you that this is definitely a YA fantasy series, so be prepared for a made-up world, tangled politics, and unfamiliar geography. If you aren’t turned off by fantasy, this is a great series to read!
 

 

About the book – from Goodreads: The thrilling conclusion to an epic fantasy about a throne cruelly stolen and a girl who must fight to take it back for her people.

Princess Theodosia was a prisoner in her own country for a decade. Renamed the Ash Princess, she endured relentless abuse and ridicule from the Kaiser and his court. But though she wore a crown of ashes, there is fire in Theo’s blood. As the rightful heir to the Astrean crown, it runs in her veins. And if she learned nothing else from her mother, she learned that a Queen never cowers.

Now free, with a misfit army of rebels to back her, Theo must liberate her enslaved people and face a terrifying new enemy: the new Kaiserin. Imbued with a magic no one understands, the Kaiserin is determined to burn down anyone and everything in her way.

The Kaiserin’s strange power is growing stronger, and with Prinz Søren as her hostage, there is more at stake than ever. Theo must learn to embrace her own power if she has any hope of standing against the girl she once called her heart’s sister.

 

 
 

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