My 64th read of the year was The Tempest Blade by Danielle L Jensen, the latest and final book in The Bridge Kingdom series.
Unfortunately, I never posted my review for the early books but you can read my review for:
Book 4 – The Endless War
Book 5 – The Twisted Throne
Obviously, this may contain spoilers as this is the part 2 of Ahnna’s POV books and the last in the series.
An attempt at summarising
This book opens with Ahnna on the run. After her dramatic exit from castle, she is a fugitive, accused of killing the King and gravely injuring the Queen. James is pursuing her, blind with grief and trying to prove his loyalty to his family. He stops at nothing to follow her, even in to enemy territory. After Ahnna causes an avalanche to block his path, she believes she is safe at last as she escapes over the border. When James catches up to her Ahnna does the only thing she can, she runs again, but when a confrontation on the ice sees James slipping beneath the surface, Ahnna can’t bring herself to let him die.
She almost has James convinced she is telling the truth when his enemy and Prince of the rival nation to Herondale turns up, takes them both hostage, confirming that his mother orchestrated everything with the Queen of Herondale. From there they become (begrudgingly) united in their mission to get Ahnna back to Ithicana and prevent a war between all the Northern nations.
My review
This book was SO GOOD. The twists and turns? The number of times you just don’t know how their going to make it? All the little threads and how they piece together? It was just so well done and SUCH a good conclusion to the series.
Like, I don’t want to say more because I don’t want to ruin it for anyone. It had me gasping aloud and made a very boring commute entertaining for a while. The romance and how they come back together is well done, but there’s plenty of pining and longing until we get there. There’s no frustrating moments where you’re screaming at two characters to communicate, right from the moment Ahnna gets a chance to, she’s is screaming the truth at James. I honestly have no criticisms of this book or how it ended the series, book 1 in Ahnna story was a little slow for me but this book had an excellent pace.
Antonia Bernardin 