The conclusion came together better than I expected, but was a bit clunky. It seemed like there should have been more build up to the epic ending battle, but it was just "everyone shows up and is together again".

I did purchase a copy of the book and don't regret owning the entire trilogy.

✨final book in a trilogy
✨multi pov
✨war between gods and humans
✨found family

Thank you NetGalley and Harper Voyager for an early copy of this book in exchange for a review.

EPIC finale, but this was not the series for me. Sunbringer put me in such a book slump that I honestly didn't care about this one. It does pick up and has a satisfying conclusion, but getting there was tough.

The finale chapter in the Fallen Gods Trilogy. The start of the novel picks up right where we left off at the end of the last book with Kissen, Elo, Lessa, and Arren forming an alliance to take down Hseth before their entire homeland and people are destroyed by the Talicans. The group ends up splitting up. Kissen, Inara, and Skediceth end up going with Lessa to find allies to help in the war while Elo reluctantly returns to Arren's army as commander general.

I think this was a solid end to the series. For someone who enjoys romance, I wish some of that was cut out. Everyone didn't need to be attracted to everyone, and hook up. I get it may be your last minute before possible death, but it was just so predictable who was banging who. This final book is filled with hope, despair, and satisfaction. I will say this book was A LOT of war scenes mixed in with some pirating adventures. Skedi really grew on me in the end and I may have even teared up for a moment.

I like this series because it is an easy read and entertaining. I would have liked to learn more about all the different gods that were in the world.

A fitting ending to a really good trilogy.


It started a little slow with the travelling and trying to find allies, but once everything was in place and it was time for the showdown with Hseth, it picked up. I love Kissen so much. Flawed, messy, prickly as she is. I like that she has grown some since meeting Inara and Elo, but she's still her prickly confrontational self. I love Elo, and seeing him confront and accept certain parts of himself. Inara and Skedi are just so cute together. And I really enjoyed the bittersweet everything was wrapped up

Unfortunately I struggled to finish this book. I will say it didn't help that it had been awhile since I had read Sunbringer, so the politics and side characters were lost on me. I loved book one, but as the series continued, I started to like the books less and less. I didn't find myself rooting for any of the relationships whether they were romantic, or just friendships. The most I felt was what had happened to Legs. The ending wasn't bad, but again not satisfying to me. I am glad a certain character didn't make it. This series had great potential for me, but in the end wasn't my cup of tea.

Thank you Netgalley for the ARC from Harper Voyager.

I fell in absolute love with this series and the family of characters created in Godkiller. As the conclusion to thw trilogy, I feel like this book does a wonderful job wrapping up the story and continuing the world building. However, I am disappointed that again (like the last book) the characters are separated for a large portion of the book. I wanted to see them continuing their adventure together, even if it was somewhat necessary for them to be separated. It was good, just not 100% what I had hoped for.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC of this book.

Oh man, this was so good. I loved all the political and war talk. I didn't want it to end because I fell in love with all the characters. My only complaint was that it was a little slow.

This was an excellent conclusion to the godkiller trilogy. What started as was seemed to be a simple quest in book one evolved into an epic war between gods.
All throughout the trilogy the story was what kept me hooked. I was really interested in the worldbuilding and how gods in this universe worked. I thought it was really interesting and built in a very satisfying way. The issues that I had with it were the characters. While I was rooting for them, I never fully understood their connection to each other. When I read the relationships evolving I understood why it happened, but I didn't feel it happen organically. Some relationships seemed to happen because it made sense as an addition to the plt, but I never felt the characters actually feeling that way.
However, all that being said. I thought the story was great. The ending was so satisfying. The world built slowly over the three books and had excellent pacing in this last book especially when all the pieces that had been set up over the course of the trilogy fell into place.

Thank you NetGalley and Harper Voyager for the ARC!

The Fallen Gods trilogy is an undervalued gem in this current economic and political climate. The book is chock full of diverse voices representing the minority voice in a time of unstable political and fanatical dissent. While the third installment of the Fallen Gods trilogy provides us with a deeper look into Skedi and Inara's development, amongst others, Kissen is my tried and true obsession. Her candor and powerful vulnerability translates beautifully on the page providing a baseline by which to measure our own comfort in ourselves. Kissen undergoes her own metamorphosis as her personal creed is challenged with edge cases between the faithful and the faithless. Despite this conflicting narrative, she remains consistent in her affection and honestly in herself. I love Kissen as the powerful woman that she is. Kissen defies categorization and I can think of nothing more beautiful and compelling.

The Fallen Gods series has a unique world littered with Gods. Humans bring them strength. Their sacrifices, prayers, shrines and offerings build up some gods to be stronger than others. One god has been rebranded from a god reborn. She is fire, death pain and sacrifice and her servants are taring though the land of Middren, killing their enemies and feeding her power with human sacrifice. A found family is doing everything they can to stop Hseth, the fire god of pain, from taking over their kingdom and destroying all other gods in Faithbreaker, the conclusion to this trilogy.

The story is told from multiple PoVs carrying the reader through the feelings and motivations of the main characters of the story. Some unexpected and uneasy alliances need to be made against a stronger foe, at least for now. Kissen and Anara must put aside some of their distrust for the Sunbringer and use him and his followers against a bigger threat. Elogast is torn between the boy Arren, he used to know and grew up with, and the Man/God, Sunbringer, who tried to sacrifice him. But, for love of his home he will help in this war and lead the armies in hopes of surviving this threat.

One of the things I loved about Godkiller, the first book of the series, was the found family created between Kissen, Elogast, Anara and Skediceth. They all were from such different places in life, but the bonds built between them all burned bright. The struggle I had with Faithbreaker, is that the characters I loved seeing together were all separated and working on different aspects of building the army to fight in the war. While this set up added to the drama and fast pacing at the end, in the beginning it made the book a little difficult to get into as it was moving really slowly. I also cared about one PoV more than the others and sometimes became impatient with getting back to the part of the story I cared about.

The last 10-15% of the book was non-stop and action packed. It was everything I really wanted for the ending to the story, minus some of the thrown in sexual relationship aspects. The drama of the war and the fight was nail-biting and heartbreaking, everything I expected it to be. The rest of the book all seemed like it was just in a holding pattern to get us to the end. There are some interesting interactions as Inara travels to meet her father in hopes of gathering a few gods to their cause. Kissen and Inara PoV’s and storyline were the most captivating to me and the parts of the story I liked best. The relationship between Kissen and the girl attached to the god of lies is my favorite of the series. Kissen is mentor, substitute mother, sister and friend all in one and I enjoy the dynamic interactions they have together. I missed Elogast being with them as he was the tenderness and voice of mercy for them.

Faithbreaker will give the reader a strong conclusion to the story. It didn’t hold the magic for me that Godkiller did and part of that was all the extra time pushed on the romantic relationships. It was like Hannah Kaner was trying to jump on the Romantasy bandwagon in this final book, instead of focusing more on the greater plotting, in my probably unpopular opinion. I didn’t like any of the new romantic points of interest brought into this final book as I liked the relationship between Kissen and Elogast. The addition of romantic entanglements that were presented were not something I was interested in nor did they make a lot of sense to me based on the history between the characters, but I will probably be in the minority here and I will accept that. However, a character that either tried to kill you or sacrifice you in a previous book doesn’t seem like someone you’d want to hook up with, just saying.

“You can’t save him, you know,” said Skedi. “You can’t undo the things he’s done. To Inara. To you.”

Overall, if you have read the other two books of the series you should understand the world and what our characters are up against. This should be satisfying conclusion the story with some possible hopes for a book in the future, perhaps when Inara is older, at least that is my hope. I would like to see what this new world show to us at the end would grow into later.

Kissen, Elo, Inara, and Skedi are back in action in the epic conclusion to the Fallen Gods trilogy. They must gather allies together in Middren to fight a war against Hseth and the Talicians before their world becomes a scorched and charred nothingness.

It is a multiple POV story following different characters across the seas, and the ones who stayed in Middren, while they attempt to unite their former foes and allies against the wrath of Hseth in order to destroy her and her Talician devotees. There is plenty of character growth and massive world building. There are new relationships kindled and some renewed, new loyalties sworn, betrayals, and heartbreaking sacrifices made.

As much as I am sad that this adventure has come to an end, the author does a good job bringing closure to the story and with each of the main characters. This was one of my favorite trilogies, and the much anticipated conclusion did not disappoint.

loved these books and I’m absolutely saddened that these tales are finished!

I have a soft spot in my heart Elo, Kissen, Ina and Skedi. These books are a wonderful representation of LGBTQ+ characters and how to write feelings, wants and desires in a way that everyone understands and has felt in their own lives.

The world building and gods were fascinating. This was such a well written book I was gasping, crying and happy all at the same time.

We've finally made it to the end and wow this was the most action-packed of the trilogy yet!!

This series has had it's up and downs but I couldn't have asked for a better ending. It was everything we needed as readers. We don't get a character reunification until near-end of the book but after the Sunbringer, I was already used to the separation of the group dynamic.

Get the tissues ready, the end of Faithbreaker really packs a punch and will have you questioning Hannah and her choices. I don't wish to give up any spoilers so I will just say that I was heartbroken as I neared the end. In one way, I did expect something of this magnitude to happen. The character development did feel as if led to this inevitable moment however I was not expecting my visceral reaction to it.

If you love Godkiller and enjoyed Sunbringer, you will not be let down with Faithbreaker.

Rating: Really Enjoyed It, 4 stars

This was a solid ending to a story I really enjoyed. This installment was definitely stronger than the last in my opinion. It felt more focused and tightly plotted. I really loved the characters that we followed throughout this series, and I thought this was a really, really cool world.

In this one, we follow Kissen, Inara, and Skedi as they go to recruit other nations to Middren's cause, and we follow Elo and Arren on the front lines of the war against Talicia and Hseth. I greatly preferred Kissen, Inara, and Skedi's storyline to Elo's. I love Elo, but the war storyline is never my favorite.

I loved that we had more characters together of our forged family interactions. The plot moved along at a good place.

My biggest issue with this was that there was a death about halfway through that seemed to be primarily for shock value, and I really disliked that. It felt a lot like emotional manipulation. I was so angry I honestly almost didn't finish the book. I had to put it down for the night and come back the next day. That could have been a bit of an overreaction, but it is what it is.

The best part of this series are the bonds that are forged between Skedi, Inara, Kissen, and Elo, and those were on display and quite beautiful in this book. The ending was incredibly beautiful and tragic and cathartic and hopeful. Overall, I do recommend this series as it was a good time overall.

Thank you to Netgalley and Harper Voyager for an eARC of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Faithbreaker releases in the US on 4/1/2025.

I was so thankful to get this book early. I remember reading the first book on a whim when I saw the cover and thought it looked interesting back in 2023. The final chapter for this trilogy did not disappoint.

My only disappointment is the series is done.

The characters growth from book 1 to book 3 felt so realistic and getting to observe their triumph and failures kept me on the edge of my seat.

I always say that if a book keeps me up in the middle of the night that means that it’s a great one, because I can’t stop thinking about it long enough to get to sleep. I’ve already ordered the audio book. Kit Griffiths was a great pick for this series and I can’t wait to hear her.

Ah, Faithbreaker. An ending to an epic fantasy series. And what an ending. Everything comes to a climax in this book, and things happen that you just do not expect. And how can a book with so much war, and violence, have such a bittersweet ending? That ending is filled with so much love, and heartbreak.

The book takes a bit to get going. I had to push myself through the first half, but then things really picked up and I couldn’t read the second half fast enough. Overall, I still really liked this book, and it was a good conclusion, tying up loose endings, and giving certain people the endings they deserved.

Thank you to William Morrow and Harper Collins for sending me an advanced copy of this book.

Thank you to NetGalley and Harper Voyager for an e-arc in exchange for an honest review. 4.75 stars rounding up to 5 for GoodReads. I thought this was a phenomenal ending to a series that has been great from the start. This one is mostly battles that lead to one final battle with some breathers for planning in between. I thought the pacing was fantastic with heart-pounding action broken up by slower character moments in between. This is a fantastic series for those looking for great world-building in a fantasy setting while also having phenomenal characters and relationships between them. The switching of perspectives throughout the story kept me engaged and wanting to keep reading the entire time. I wish there was a bit more time at the end for some reflection after what happened but other than that, I thought it was a great ending where I shed some tears.

The Godkiller series has a lot of great qualities, with strong writing and an intricate story that shows a lot of thought and depth. While I did enjoy the series overall, I found that it didn’t quite resonate with me as much as I hoped. The pacing was a bit slow at times, and I struggled with keeping the characters straight, which made it harder to get fully immersed. That said, it’s still a well-crafted and engaging story that fans of detailed, slower-paced fantasy might really enjoy—just not my personal favorite read.

“Gods are never lost if there is someone who still believes in them”

This is the thrilling conclusion to the Fallen Gods trilogy, and it does not disappoint. Hannah masterfully weaves together the intricate threads of each character's journey, bringing their arcs to a meaningful and satisfying resolution. The narrative unfolds as a gripping dark fantasy, immersing readers in its richly imagined world from the very first page. The atmosphere is charged with tension and intrigue, ensuring that once you dive in, you’ll find it nearly impossible to put the book down. With vivid descriptions and complex character development, the story sinks its teeth into you and holds you captive until the last word.

Faithbreaker - The Fallen Gods Trilogy Book 3
4.8🌟
What a thrilling roller coaster ride of a conclusion to this very compelling trilogy. I have been dragged along by strong currents and undertows, then warmed and licked by flames, then wind swept and soaring upon wings of Fallen Gods throughout the saga before having my bones roasted and cracked open to expose the marrow and ultimately realising it is all the little things in life that truly make the difference.

Faithbreaker’s rich tapestry of vibrant world and character building is a wunderkammer of fantasy delight. The depth of inclusivity and representation within this world is the broadest I’ve seen, all colors, creeds, queerness, disfigurements, and abilities are here as a regular part of life, normal and accepted without a second glance.

Love, sacrifice, intrigue, devotion, engineering, gorgeous food, pirates, this book has all I could want in a story, and more.

The plot drives you through a compelling maze towards the ultimate possibilities of crushing defeat at the hands of Hseth or bittersweet victory and the promise of lives rebuilt via the savior King Arren, only to pull it all down at the last moment like shattering a labyrinth of funhouse mirrors because life isn’t a series of ultimate choices, but made up of millions of tiny actions constantly driving it forward. Something akin to the mycelial mat beneath an ancient forest floor.

All the characters are well developed and I never felt out of place moving from one to another. I do have a particular soft spot for the travails of Kissen and would gladly follow her on further journeys.

In the end this was a gorgeous finale to the Fallen Gods Trilogy. I really had to sit with it a while to understand my feelings on the unexpected ending. Now is an excellent time for books that make us think deeply about our connections and not just our potential heroes.
Thanks a million to NetGalley and Harper Voyager books for giving me the chance to read this amazing book ahead of publication.