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sarrie's review
adventurous
dark
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
TL;DR: A pretty good wrap-up to a duology, but with some real unnecessary sexual content.
Overall I really enjoyed Court of Wanderers. This is the final book in the Reaper duology and wraps up Remy, Xiodan, and Malekh’s story. This follows Silver Under Nightfall pretty much immediately as Remy and Malekh take Xiodan to the safety of Malekh’s court headquarters and from there the three work to bring the courts together and to save everyone from the Night Empress.
We’ll talk about the things I really enjoyed first. Unlike a lot of people I do like the poly relationship here. Remy is dense, yes, but as far as a team goes I like them. They were fairly believable in their flaws and how they worked together. I also actually loved how Remy’s family was settled, no spoilers there but I enjoyed that neat tie up. The twist was good, I didn’t see that one coming or to that extent. I also enjoyed the different courts and their leaders.
The biggest issue I had was the sexual content. It was completely unneeded. I say that as someone who LOVES romance, and doesn’t mind sex in my books at all. The sex scenes were fade to black in that they were happening but no in depth details were revealed as they happened. Instead the characters talked about politics while having sex??? And there is a scene where sex is publicly performed for political reasons which felt like nothing more than a ‘tantalize’ moment but it was cold as a cold fish and ultimately felt unneeded. I can’t decide if it was included to be ‘spicy’ or too be sex positive, and either way I feel like it was clumsy and detracted from the story overall. The pacing, because of this being such a weirdly large part of the story, is off in the middle.
If you enjoyed Silver Under Nightfall this does wrap the story up. I enjoyed seeing that, but there are some issues, as noted. But if you want to see a satisfying conclusion it is worth following through.
4 out of 5 Creepy Healing Trees
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Xenophobia, and Blood
Moderate: War and Colonisation
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