*I received an audio review copy via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.*

Until now, every book in the series that has been better and better for me until I’m really disappointed that I didn’t love this as much as I thought I would. I think this does ann interesting job of showing the scope of the larger conflict that the series has been building up to and we also see Ropa face consequences for choices she made in the last book and we see her learn more about her family in an interesting way. Unfortunately, I don’t think I liked the way that the personal journey and the political conflict blended in this one. 

The stakes have been escalated, but the plot felt like it dragged. Maybe it’s because there’s less of a central mystery in this one? I’m not sure but I still really enjoy the series and I think it’s doing a lot of fun things, and I wish more people would pick it up. And I’m still very much looking forward to the fifth book which will presumably wrap up the series. I’m absolutely planning a reread of the whole series before that last book comes out.

As I’ve probably said before I think part of why I’ve seen people bounce off this series is the writing style, which uses a lot of sling, but stylistically for me it gives so much more life to Ropa. I highly recommend the audiobooks read by Kimberly Mandindo.