I felt my chest swell with the overpowering longing and the connection that pulsed like a living and breathing thing between the girl and the king. I walked in the corridors of an empty, desolate palace, and my hands yearned to touch its king, to comfort him and trail the marks in his body that bound him to promises with a steep price. I was swept by the need to dress like a pirate and dance next to a pixie that got drunk in honey and a girl who accepted her ruthlessness yet loved passionately. I found beauty in this book, in its hopelessness and the terrifying path towards doom and mayhem, in the ashen sky and the parched land. I'd say that I found the story a little underdeveloped, since we spent the majority of the book inside Aileana's head, her internal struggles between compassion and brutality, instead of witnessing mindblowing battles and visiting breathtaking landscapes that the discovery of the Book of Remembrance and the conclusion of this arc were hasty that I dreaded yet eagerly expected scenes with wicked Kadamach that would twist and break my soul, but in the end the only difference between Kiaran and Kadamach was the hunger for human blood, not immoraliry and depravity.

If I were completely objective, I'd say that The Fallen Kingdom was probably the weakest instalment of the Falconer trilogy, a trilogy I cherished from the first moment. “As it begins in death, so shall it end in death, until the day a child of the Cailleach confronts their fate with a true lie on their lips and sacrifices that which they prize most: their heart.”įor the sake of honesty, I have to admit that my rating is rather partial. And some sacrifices you cannot avoid, not when the future of your world is at stake. Their story, though, was not meant to have a happy ending. The king had many demons to fight, but he loved her so much he defied his own insticts, his own survival.

With time running out, she set off a journey with her mother's murderer, a broken queen and a dark faery king. Her world had fallen apart, and the only way to prevent its demise was to find a cruel, ageless being trapped in a realm of nightmares, where reality was fluid. But then started to remember, and the weight of her choices and her destiny brought her to her knees. She could only catch a glimpse of her former self when she bathed in blood, when she harnessed her newfound powers. She clawed her way out of the grave, with no memories of her past and some abilities that burned her and begged to be unleashed.

Once upon a time, a human girl fought in a desperate battle, and she was sliced with a blade. “If you were alive, you'd wish you had killed me.”

The fallen kingdom elizabeth may