The Ivory Tomb is the conclusion of The Rooks and Ruin series. The Demons have returned to earth and Ryx must find a way to send them back and save the planet.

I really enjoyed the return (and finale!) to the Rook and Ruin series. It picks up right after the end of book 2 and never slows down from there. It is paced super fast with tons of running and fighting and snark from the outset. She does a fantastic job of moving through Ryx's now and then, letting the backstory come to the fore in a way that's woven in nicely. The endings are all well earned and true to the characters throughout.

Love this series and I'm excited to see what's next from this author.

I received an advance copy from the publisher and Netgalley to review.

Well I loved reading these books! I previously read The Obsidian Tower, but that was just before it first came out, and before I read her first series. Now that I read that, I was really excited to read this whole series, but I was waiting to be closer to The Ivory Tomb's release-and then I got an ARC, so I had to read them all now!

Now that I'm more familiar with this world, I was looking for mentions of familiar faces, and maybe names. This is set 150 years later, so only some of the Witch Lords are around, like the Crow Lord, which was nice. But he and Amelia founded the Rookery, so there is that!

Knowing the reveals of the first book, I was like, gate from hell, this is important, this is dangerous, and most of you are not going about this is the right way. But then we get to the second book, and oh, the reveals there! I think Ashe and Severin are the only ones who don't have a personal drama going on, and they're drawn into what was going on with the rest of the team. That reveal for Ryx is the biggest, but Kessa and Foxglove's was pretty big, as well!

While this book has more of a focus on the magic, it does deal a lot with politics, between the two nations, and with the demons, Ryx has an interesting place, given her heritage with a parent from both, and that she's also the Demon of Disaster. Each time that they had to go up against a demon, she had a huge role of being the communicator, one who had faint memories now of her past, of who the other demons are.

I loved how things wrapped up, it was really satisfying, and now that she has Gloamingard, that was really great. I do wish we could've had more of the past, who the Graces were and how they sent the demons back, and how Laeka was when Disaster took down Carnage, and when Disaster when back to the Hells. Alas.

This was such a fantastic series, and I can't wait to see what Melissa Caruso writes next, in this world, or something else!

I requested a digital copy in order to sample the prose on my phone (since I don't have a eReader) before requesting a physical copy for review. My review will be based on the physical ARC I read (if I qualify)

this was such a great conclusion to the Rooks and Ruin series, it did everything that I was hoping for. The characters were just as strong and acted the way they were suppose to. I really was hooked from the beginning in both the series and from the first page of this chapter. It was well written and I'm glad I was able to read this.

"A grim silence fell over the table. I stared into the remnants of my pasta, agonizingly aware that this could be the last good meal I shared with friends for a long, long time. Bastian cleared his throat. “About that—it almost being too late. I agree, and I’m not certain we want to prioritize Carnage first.”