“Sometimes love was holding someone’s hand in the silence and waiting for the storm to pass.”

“Brave with my hand, brave with my heart”

This was such an amazing ending to this series, after starting out the series with Cece’s journey, then xanders, it felt right to walk through a book in which Rainer has to find his strength and his way back home. And that ending OMG!!!

This series was an absolute masterpiece every single book a beautiful piece that dove deeper characters that wove this world together.

The way I devoured this audiobook arc and was checking NetGalley everyday to get the next day. I will be recommending to is series to everyone I know because I love a good fantasy story that makes you bawl your eyes out - audiobook recommended if you’re also a crier lol.

I am thankful to Sheila and Dreamscape for the opportunity to read this amazing series for my review and I can’t wait for everyone else to be able to read it as well.

Devastatingly beautiful 💖

This book absolutely destroyed me but then put me back together. This was such a beautiful final book and ticked so many boxes for me. I definitely wasn't prepared for the emotional damage that came with the events of The Godless Kingdom, but the ending was absolutely lovely. The multi POV was excellent and I was excited to read from each character's perspective when it switched, which doesn't always happen. My favourite part of this book was moving on from the love triangle which then allowed for the FMC/MMCs to develop in their own way. I'm an absolute sucker for a gushy HEA and this one was well deserved! I'm going to miss these characters and the audiobook made me that much more attached to them!

✨ Thank you Netgalley and Sheila for trusting me with this early copy of the audiobook. It was absolutely spectacular! ✨

I don’t have a lot more to say about these voice actors and the quality of this series. You have taken a series I have loved and watched Sheila write over the course of our friendship and have given us something so raw, emotional and worthy of the texts. Thank you. I hope you pick up Sheila’s future projects and give us the audiobooks for them.

Thank you netgalley for the audio arc in exchange for an honest review!

Well the finale was what all finales should be
EPIC
A beautiful conclusion to an under hyped series!

The narration was perfect and the character so well written

A book where you don’t want it to end and want to root and cry for the character all at once

Beautiful!

My heart hurt during most of this book, which is a testament to how much Sheila made me care about these characters through the last 3 books. I said in my review for The Storm King that our trio had been going Through It™️, but I didn't even know what was in store for me. So much angst, so many feels. Sheila is great at forcing us to deal with our discomfort (the characters were definitely more uncomfy) to make the story feel real, despite being a fantasy. The resolution was so so satisfying, and I did a literal excited fist up in the air when it all started to fall into place. I appreciated the care that Sheila took in addressing difficult subject matter and also how she wrote characters who were not immediately "fixed" with the completion of plot points. A lot of healing would need to be and was shown. Whew, what a ride.

Audiobook note: I didn't think it would be possible for my heart to hurt more for these characters than it did during my initial read, but oof, the audiobook did it. I love that the POV characters have their own narrator; it definitely adds to the whole production and links you to the characters. The quality of the recording is very good, and I could speed it up without losing clarity with any of the narrators. I loved the audio version of each book in this series, and this one was no different!

Thanks to Dreamscape Media, Sheila, and NetGalley for an ALC of this audiobook for an honest review.

I don’t even know where to begin with this one. It is perfection. Infinite stars. This is the final book of the series and when I say that I am so sad to say goodbye for now to these characters I am understating it. The finality of this story is perfection. Once again Sheila’s ability to write about grief and trauma is unparalleled. I’m so appreciative for characters who feel and process their emotions so fully. The journey this little family goes on is harrowing, profound, empowering, inspiring and beautiful. Thank you Sheila for writing a series that will be etched into my heart forever.

Updated Audiobook Review: I am so unbelievably in awe of this book and to have a cast of narrators bringing life to these characters was an experience I don’t think I will ever get over. It was insanely emotional and made an already fantastic book even better.

Highlights:
✨Found Family
✨Multiple POV
✨Unique Magic
✨Witch x Guardian
✨Vivid and Distinct World Building
✨Amazing Ensemble Cast

Favorite Quotes: “I am all of these broken things. I am all of my wounds and fears, but I am also all of my love and joy. I can be all of those things at once. There’s no clean slate and even if there was I wouldn’t want to forget, not really.”

“Sometimes the best we can do when we are the person with the most power is trust that the people we love deserve the same agency over their lives to decide what is worth sacrificing for.”

“Perhaps it is fine to you as long as there are no visible bruises. It’s the most common violence in the world, you know? The violence that disguises itself as love.”

Thank you to the author and Dreamscape Media for this advanced copy. My opinions are my own.

BREAK MY HEART again and again SHEILA! Then, patch it back together with your words for which I now have no words. You dragged me willingly through blood, sweat and tears and somehow made me (through your characters) feel stronger, more open to hope and possibilities, more accepting and understanding, more human, more real. This series and especially this book had levels of compassion that were enthralling and haunting. I cannot and will not want to forget what you've said so astoundingly and profoundly throughout this saga.