What a fantastic ending to an incredible trilogy. I love the Basque setting. I adore the world-building. And I've grown to love the characters with all their flaws. Nahia's story connects the events of Faery Sight more closely to what was learned in Cradle Gift and brings everything together with a heart-stopping ending where nothing worked out as expected, but was still resolved in a wonderfully satisfying way.
There was only one small thing that I found strange, which is that right at the end, the author switches to first person narrative, which simply threw me out of the story because it was so unexpected. It was the only thing though. I blazed through the rest of this novel in two sittings, so I give it 4.5 stars.
I highly recommend this wonderful trilogy, which is exactly the type of novel I would have loved to read as a teen, back when I hated the YA genre for talking down to teens. This series does nothing of the sort. The characters are flawed, yet grow into people I could root for, and who I wanted to see succeed. I also love the greater scope of the characters' trajectories, which don't stop with first love but actually explore the broader outcomes of the characters' lives over time, and the consequences of their decisions and actions.
Check out my reviews of the other books in this series:
Faerie Sight, book 1 in the series.
Cradle Gift, book 2 in the series.
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