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A review by annettebooksofhopeanddreams
The Godborn and the King by Kaitlyn Davis
5.0
When I started this series I had no idea who Kaitlyn Davis was. I had never read any of her books. I just saw an insanely pretty cover on Netgalley, saw that it was a retelling of Tristan and Isolde and saw that it was an epic fantasy adventure. It was the start of something beautiful. Not just this series, which is an amazing romantic fantasy series deserving way more love than I see it getting. But also from discovering Davis' fantasy backlist. Just two more series to go!
This is the last book in the series and it's everything a last book is supposed to be. Everything we've learned, every character we met, every seemingly meaningless scene, it's all coming back, it's all connecting, it's all leading towards that one future and one solution. It's not easy to get there. Our characters have to fight, for their lives, for the lives of their people, for the world as a whole and for a bright future for everyone. They do it with passion and fire.
Even though this is quite a big book I flew through it with ease. Davis has a lovely writing style, with sentences you feel in your heart and soul and vivid images you can picture in your head. Her action is breathtaking and sometimes even very raw. Her love and romance is true and real and unconditional, despite flaws and faults and mistakes. Her characters are real, layered and very clearly changed from the people we met once upon a time.
I'm okay with letting these characters and their world go. They got their ending, the ending this series deserved, the ending fitting the story that was told and the characters starring in it. But I will miss them deeply. And I will mostly miss Xander, the boy who has always felt less, had always known that missing a hand will keep him from doing thing he wants, but mostly the boy who learned that there are many things he can do left, that he is loved and cherished and the best king possible.
If you didn't start this series yet. If you love your romance mixed with fantasy or your fantasy mixed with romance. If you don't mind big books and loads of characters and worlds with prophecies and secrets and gods and monsters: Please pick up this series and love it as much as I did. Do.
ps. If you order this book before it releases Monday May 23rd, make sure to check out https://www.kaitlyndavisbooks.com/p/pre-order-giveaway.html to claim your pre-order present!
This is the last book in the series and it's everything a last book is supposed to be. Everything we've learned, every character we met, every seemingly meaningless scene, it's all coming back, it's all connecting, it's all leading towards that one future and one solution. It's not easy to get there. Our characters have to fight, for their lives, for the lives of their people, for the world as a whole and for a bright future for everyone. They do it with passion and fire.
Even though this is quite a big book I flew through it with ease. Davis has a lovely writing style, with sentences you feel in your heart and soul and vivid images you can picture in your head. Her action is breathtaking and sometimes even very raw. Her love and romance is true and real and unconditional, despite flaws and faults and mistakes. Her characters are real, layered and very clearly changed from the people we met once upon a time.
I'm okay with letting these characters and their world go. They got their ending, the ending this series deserved, the ending fitting the story that was told and the characters starring in it. But I will miss them deeply. And I will mostly miss Xander, the boy who has always felt less, had always known that missing a hand will keep him from doing thing he wants, but mostly the boy who learned that there are many things he can do left, that he is loved and cherished and the best king possible.
If you didn't start this series yet. If you love your romance mixed with fantasy or your fantasy mixed with romance. If you don't mind big books and loads of characters and worlds with prophecies and secrets and gods and monsters: Please pick up this series and love it as much as I did. Do.
ps. If you order this book before it releases Monday May 23rd, make sure to check out https://www.kaitlyndavisbooks.com/p/pre-order-giveaway.html to claim your pre-order present!