Lightbringer (Empirium, #3)
Claire Legrand
The incredible conclusion to the trilogy that started with the instant New York Times bestsellers Furyborn and Kingsbane!In this epic finale to the Empirium Trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Claire Legrand, two queens, separated by a thousand years must face their ultimate destinies. Queen Rielle, pushed away from everything she loves, turns to Corien and his promises of glory. Meanwhile, whispers from the empirium slowly drive her mad, urging her to open the Gate. Separated from Audric and Ludivine, she embraces the role of Blood Queen and her place by Corien’s side, determined to become the monster the world believes her to be.In the future, Eliana arrives in the Empire’s capital as a broken shell of herself. Betrayed and abandoned, she fights to keep her power at bay—and away from Corien, who will stop at nothing to travel back in time to Rielle, even if that means destroying her daughter.But when the mysterious Prophet reveals themselves at last, everything changes, giving Rielle and Eliana a second chance for salvation—or the destruction their world has been dreading.Praise for Furyborn: A BuzzFeed Most Anticipated Title of Spring 2018 A Goodreads Most Anticipated Title of Spring 2018 A Bustle Most Anticipated Title of Spring 2018 "A must-read." —Refinery29 "A series to watch." —Paste magazine "Visionary." —Bustle magazine "One of the biggest new YA fantasies." —Entertainment Weekly"Empowering." —BuzzFeed
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0Oh THANK GOD it’s over! I enjoyed the trilogy as a whole, but this book was sooooooooooo drawn out. I was tempted to abandon, and skip to the end a few times.
I would have rather more action scenes than the never ending pages, and pages, and pages of dreams and feelings. I skipped entire paragraphs and didn’t miss anything. Over all, it’s a fantastic story, but this book could have been easily been better with some character’s having a final death chapter instead of chapters of torturous dreams, and visions. The meat was there, but it was tiny and covered in watery potatoes. Rielle is the second worst character I’ve read in a long time. I am glad there were so many other POV’s because I just couldn’t stand her. Corian takes the cake though as the worst. He is even more of a narcissist than Rielle, and is constantly gas lighting her to get his way. Just two unlikeable entities that you can’t get behind even knowing their backstories because their personalities just suck.
The overall story in the three books is fantastic, and it’s a good ending to a great trilogy that takes you on an incredible journey. However, this book could have been amazing if more was done with the secondary characters. Instead, we got pages upon pages of the same things over and over again
0Decided to DNF @ 42%. I may come back to it, but finally realized I don’t really care how this ends.
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