Dark Age

This book was horrifying, disgusting, and made me feel the entire spectrum of negative emotions.

And you know what?

I respect it.

A stellar beginning and ending held back only by a stalling middle. This book took me a long time to finish due to losing momentum in the middle and getting caught up in other books so the fact it is still getting 4.5 stars from me is testament to the highs that this novel reaches. The author continues to excel in detailing fight scenes, which is handy because these 800 pages are full of them! The use of Mustang's narration was a pleasant surprise and resulted in some of the most thought-provoking chapters. The ending sets up the next entry in the series perfectly and I will certainly be coming back for more.

Wow have I been reading this since APRILLLL!!!! Okay wow, wowowowowoow

So I think I liked this more than Iron Gold and allow me to start by saying if anything happens in the next book to Darrow or Lyria I am going to cry so just keep that in mind.

Lyria is a really cool character, she was introduced in iron gold and has quickly become maybe my favorite character in the whole series, and whole dynamic btwn her and volga and victa was so cool. I just love how Iron Gold and Dark Age split the stories between different characters, it feels like you're watching infinity war and everything is slowly building to a crescendo. You know these characters are going to meet at some point and then they do and then it's incredible.

So yeah I'm just going to be waiting around doing nothing until 2023 dono bout you guys tho.

Note to myself: This book was really good, you should watch a recap when the next one comes out, drop what you're reading, and start reading that. Because you really liked this one a lot and if I were me in the future, I would be soooo mad if you had the chance to read a page of #6 but didn't.