House of Sky and Breath

I love Throne of Glass and ACOTAR. I really liked the ending of House of Earth and Blood. I did not get this book at all. I really wanted to love this book, I've read ACOTAR and CC1 in the last few months building up to CC3's release, but I couldn't find the magic in this one that I've found and loved in the others.

I'm sure it's setting up for Book 3, but that's all it felt it did. Everything happened in the last 40 pages. The first 500 pages were tracking a kid who could have changed the world (but actually couldn't) and Bryce's sleight of hand with her mum was cleverly done but just left me feeling I'd missed out on a good bit. It's nice to see Ruhn get a story line but these characters don't feel like Manon or Dorian or Cassian. I'm not as bought into them as I have been with the other series.

I wanted to like it, I might come back after reading book 3 (because I will read it) with a completely different take but as a standalone book it felt about 400 pages too long.