Content Warnings:

Graphic: Death of a Parent, Death, War, Blood, Injury Detail Moderate: Death of a Child, Sexual Assault, Depersonalisation, Fantasy/Old Medical Scenes

Thank you the publisher, Entangled Teen, for an eARC in exchange for an honest review! I'll be upfront, I don't think this is as strong as the first 2 books. The mental health aspect felt a little surface level, the romance was wildly just so "why is this the main priority right now". The characters where the same as before, not too much here to say. They didn't really change too much over this book, and Lina x Rui where even more obsessed with each other than before lmao. Lina does try and grow throughout this book, and it's kinda the point of her plot actually - but with such a short time trying to go through each part it feels very surface level and like she doesn't *actually* learn anything more than just "huh I should think about this a lil more". There was also just far too many characters. It's a multi-POV book and I genuinely lost count of how many POVs there were. Some of the POVs were only around for like 1 or 2 chapters and kinda just.. didn't add that much. The plot was pretty straightforward and what you'd expect after the first books. War and fighting, rebellion and reflection. A mostly direct continuation from the end of the last book - war has started but it's a little bit into it. The characters kinda play like how you'd expect them to in this situation. The kinda surface level mental health aspect of Lina in the mind I felt could really have had fewer sections and each one had a longer time. Cause rn it feels like it mostly just boils down to "I gotta have a harder think about some things and let myself remember some stuff" which is great, it is a step forward, but I feel like just way too much tries to be done especially when something like this takes a lot more time to fully sink in. The ending is pretty good though, I did quite enjoy the "final act" of sorts. Very good ending for the story and a really nice wrap up :)