This was a fantastic conclusion to the trilogy! It was filled with fighting, battle strategy, and emotional stakes!The friendships, the romance, the betrayal and everything in between was just so well done and written. I really enjoyed the consideration of religion and faith in the story and how it was written. It's truly such a good trilogy to read and one I'd definitely recommend for any Fantasy reading who enjoys a unique look on religion in fantasy worlds and a great worldbuilding story!

Thank you so much for sending me an arc Harper!

4.25

Thank you to Harper Voyager for the e-ARC

I love this series, and I liked this book as a conclusion to it. In terms of the book-specific plot, it honestly was not my favorite- I don’t enjoy reading fighting and battlefield strategy, and there was a LOT of that. I get why that is, and I don’t resent the book for having fight scenes, but they are always going to feel like a slog to me at this scale.

However, the emotional stakes in this book are superb. Inara and everyone (but especially Skedi), Lessa and Kissen, Elo and Arren, and so many more relationships in here are so moving. The painful entanglements of love and betrayal and mistrust and forgiveness and begrudging friendship… these are what kept me reading and why I was in tears by the end.

As always, the thoughtful consideration of religion and faith is at the core of this story, and provides some very interesting food for thought. I enjoyed the multiplicity of what belief looks like and the roles it plays for different people, as well as how it can be weaponized. This was unsurprisingly the best part of the worldbuilding.

All in all, a satisfying conclusion to the trilogy that ties up the ends and leaves the reader with some hope and curiosity for the future.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an eARC! Faithbreaker is a fantastic way to cap off this trilogy. Faithbreaker is an earnest, page-turning, and heartwarming exploration of family, loyalty, and power. I loved spending more time with these characters and learning more about the histories and politics of Middren and its gods. This book wrapped up the whole trilogy really well as well as the story within the book itself. I appreciated little call backs to previous novels and where this story ended up. Pieces of this dragged a little bit, put it paid off at the end. I am sad this trilogy is ending, but I am excited to see where the author takes readers next!

Thank you to NetGalley and Harper Voyager for letting me read an e-ARC of Faithbreaker by Hannah Kaner! I've rated this book 4.5/5 stars, but for the purpose of this review, have rounded down to 4 stars.

The ending to this trilogy broke me. While the pacing felt much slower than the previous two books (so many battles and politics and gods with similar names to keep track of), I really got back into the swing of the story around 40% and it only picked up from there. I love Kaner’s ability to balance numerous POVs, and the devastating ending and final battle sequence is what really nailed it for me. I cried nonstop during the final chapters and epilogue. The losses felt impactful and important instead of an author simply going on a killing spree just for the sake of it (though I’m still flabbergasted). I wish that our beloved characters could’ve spent more time all together as a full group, but the separate journeys (though a bit tedious at times) made sense with the plot.

If you enjoy high-stakes fantasies with rich world-building and characters you love (including some you hate to love), the Fallen Gods trilogy should be on your radar. With Kaner’s first trilogy complete, I can’t wait to see what she works up next!

Thank you Hannah Kaner and Avon & Harper Voyager for an ARC copy of Faithbreaker!

Rating 4/5 ⭐

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

What a phenomenal and action-packed finale to the Fallen Gods Trilogy! While the majority of the book was slow moving as the characters gathered their armies. By the end you could feel the slow-burn stress creeping up on you - and the ending was absolutely brutal. I finished this book with tears uncontrollably streaming down my face and still wanting more 😭

There are so many vividly beautiful and heartbreaking scenes that have stuck with me throughout these books it's hard to pick my favorites. Hannah Kaner writes excellent characters with all the depth and development you could ever ask for, making for a memorable experience with characters that are easy to love and/or loathe. Which makes it so much worse when they spend the majority of the last 2 books separated! 😅

Overall, I am so satisfied with the ending of Faithbreaker, and this will definitely be one of my favorite series to recommend. 💕

i have been on the most delightful adventure over the course of the last few weeks.

thank you to netgalley, author hannah kaner and avon + harper voyager for this advance reader copy.

when i saw this available to request, i got excited because i had just started godkiller. i was very much in the dark- i try to be thorough and read the full series always in my reviews if in a set, even if that means seeking the books out at the library or paying to read, i want it done right. so imagine my shock when i find this is a trilogy with this book.

phew, lets get down to buisiness and read! the first book introduces us to a rich fantasy world with fantastic disability representation. the second takes the world and makes it real, huge and alive. this book is more intimate and has more interpersonal conflict and discussion which i enjoyed. this was absolutely fantastic and i have a lot of accolades for this and the series as a whole. the overall story is so well thought out in a way that blows my mind, i felt like i was transported.

erase my mind so i can read them again pls.

if you’re wondering if you should keep up the series, this is an emphatic yes! our april 1, 2025, and this is no april fools joke, it may be your favorite book of the year.

Thank you @netgalley @harpervoyagerus #partner for the gifted copy of this book!

Faithbreaker delivered a thrilling, high-stakes conclusion to this trilogy full of tension and emotion. I am here for it! I was hooked from the start and was looking forward to what Kaner would do with these characters! I just recently read Sunbringer and continuing this journey was not only epic but satisfying! Kaner’s storytelling is sharp and immersive and I felt like this book never lost any momentum once the action started. The adventure, high stakes and pacing was exactly what I needed to wrap up this trilogy. I loved how each character seemed to just be pushed to their limit! If you love stories where characters are well developed, stories about betrayal, and overall just a fully immersive experience make sure to check out this series!

This was a good ending to this trilogy. The stakes were high and the way everything came together really packed a punch. I love having multiple POVs.

I will say the pacing felt really slow. But that also is something I’ve said about this series. I feel like the entire book was the sum of 3 battles. There was a lot less gods involvement and a lot more character driven plot. There’s some side romance plot lines as well.

Skedi and Inara continue to be my favorites throughout this series!

I was so excited to read this final book in this trilogy and was just not into it until the last 20% of the book. I think that this series did not need to be 3 books.

Thank you HarperVoyager and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this eARC.

I unfortunately have had to DNF this book. I got to about 50% but I just was not invested and found myself bored, which I hate to say. I really wanted to love this series but I think it just was not for me. Thank you so much for the ARC!

I'm honestly so upset about how I'm feeling about this book. I've noodled on it for days and my opinion has not budged, which is absolutely tragic.

For me, this was the biggest let down of any series I have read. I enjoyed Godkiller and Sunbringer so thoroughly and was deeply invested in the fight that Kissen, Elo, Inara, and Skedi were fighting. The core of the problem is that the first two books were about found family that just happened to be fighting gods, and this third book focused on politics and war games over a family relying on each other to solve the problem. Without our cr together - being grumpy, moody, hilariously, deeply in love with each other (platonically and romantically), this book held minimal emotional connection for me.

My big hurt is that Kaner SPLIT MY FAMILY APART to delve into political machinations that she did ZERO legwork to set up previously. So, while this worked to solve the issue at hand, there was no world-building set up to support such a venture.

Also, trigger warning: animal death. I bawled my eyes out. That's another point against this book, RUDE.

Faithbreaker was the conclusion that this series needed.

This book cleared up questions left behind in book two. Although I did not get the ending that I wanted, I still enjoyed the series as a whole.
The political stress, the personal stress, the love and pain that are written in this book are beautiful.

As in the first two books, Hannah's ability to create a visual for this world is an absolute treat. The lore around the gods only deepened as the books progressed, and I appreciate that. I like that we got more into the characters' familial relationships in this final installment and really got the chance to see more emotion from Elogast.

THE ENDING RIPPED MY HEART FROM MY CHEST!!!! WHY DID YOU DO IT, HANNAH??? WHYYYY!!!

For a debut fantasy novel, Ms. Kaner did a great job. I look forward to reading more from her.

Thank you to Netgalley, Avon and Harper Voyager/Harper Voyager, and Hannah Kaner for the ARC of Faithbreaker.
I am voluntarily leaving my honest review.

I read this whole series in just a couple of weeks. I’m typically a romantasy fan, but to read a series mainly fantasy was a breath of fresh air.

Faithbreaker definitely rounded out the trilogy perfectly. I love Kissen and adore Inara. I’m so sad to say goodbye to these characters. Their growth was on another level. I loved the inclusivity, of not just Faithbreaker, but the whole series. Hannah Kaner did a phenomenal job of pulling it all together in the end and leaving me in tears.

I was really nervous after Sunbringer that the series would just dip and never come back, but wow! Faithbreaker added an emotional element that I hadn't felt since Godkiller and it really just hooked me. from the start I was just in it, I'm not sure how to put it into words. You have to read Sunbringer and then jump right into Faithbreaker in my opinion, they just wrap everything up so nicely. Not to mention the writing never dwindled off, I felt like we kept the same quality and strength from the beginning to the end. Book2 just is the middle child haha which is normal for a lot of trilogies and I don't think that should turn anyone away. Read Godkiller and if you are in love with the story then, please keep going. Especially now that Faithbreaker will be out in just a few short days!

Happy reading!

This is an extremely satisfying conclusion to this trilogy. This book picks up very soon after the end of Sunbringer. Our core characters are divided on 2 different adventures again, however there was enough time of them all together to satisfy that desire. I really enjoyed how the world was widened in the journey that Kissen takes, and how the wider perspective clarifies the situation in Middren. Once again Hannah Kaner effectively balances several complex topics, specifically religion/faith and war. I really like how this trilogy dealt with some different ideas in very unique ways, and strongly recommend it to fantasy readers. As usual, the romance elements were the weak areas for me. Otherwise this was a very strong story with a satisfying amount of twists and turns before culminating in a well earned bittersweet ending.

Thank you to NetGalley and Harper Voyager for providing me an eARC in return for my honest thoughts.

I had a really great time reading the conclusion to this trilogy!

I do think there were a couple predictable moments and that the ending was kind of abrupt. I would have liked a couple more chapters between the end of the main events and the epilogue showing a little more of the aftermath of things and the decisions/events leading up to the epilogue. However, I enjoyed being with these characters so much that I'd take as much time with this as I could get.

I would absolutely read more from Hannah Kaner, especially if she wrote more in this world. I do think there were enough things left unanswered that it would be very easy for her to revisit this world and these characters in later books.

4.5/5 for the book and series as a whole, rounding up on the star rating here.

Faithbreaker picks up immediately after Sunbringer ends. If you don’t remember much of Sunbringer, do yourself a favor and reread the last 10% or so– it’ll definitely improve your enjoyment. And while I don’t think I loved this third book as much of the first, it really wraps up the trilogy beautifully and I recommend it.

Like Sunbringer, the party that came together in the first book is split up, though in a different configuration. This bummed me out at first since the interplay was one of the gems of the first book, but it generally works here– there’s more to love and the threads come together in a satisfying way. There continues to be some great exploration about the meaning of faith. All the characters get some interesting development.

On the downside, the pacing feels off, but this was the case for Sunbringer for me as well. The first 50% or so feels pretty slow, and the end feels somewhat rushed despite the very satisfying ending.

What a perfect end to this incredible trilogy. Like the first two books, Faithbreaker is full of poetic prose and gripping adventure, but beyond that, I came to love all the characters so much more than I anticipated. The character growth is probably my favorite thing about this entire series. I adored seeing the relationships between characters morph into things of depth, honesty, and beauty.

The end of this book shattered my heart into a million little pieces and will be sending my therapy invoice to Hannah Kaner's team.

Thank you so much to NetGalley and Avon and Harper Voyager | Harper Voyager for the chance to read this ARC!

I think this was just as satisfying as the first book of the series! The pacing was fabulous. The twists were foreshadowed but still gripping! I would definitely recommend this series to anyone who likes fantasy with a unique magic system and a character driven plot.

Hannah Kaner delivers a stunning conclusion to the Fallen Gods trilogy with Faithbreaker, a story of faith, power, and sacrifice set against a brutal and beautifully crafted world. As the fire god Hseth’s destruction spreads, Elo, Inara, and Kissen are forced to confront impossible choices and uneasy alliances.

But what truly sets this book apart is its characters. Kaner builds them with such depth that their struggles feel heartbreakingly real. By the final battle—an intense, high-stakes moment—I was completely invested, on the verge of tears.

With rich worldbuilding, morally gray heroes, and an unforgettable ending, Faithbreaker is a must-read for fantasy lovers.