Divinity's Twilight: Remnant

I'm about a year late to finishing this one, but I'm so glad I finally got to it. And it's a thicc one. 

This one takes off right where Rebirth left off. The empire has struck, and Darmatia has fallen. The cadets must find the remnants of the army, and reenlist to help the rebel movements. 

To reference my comments from my review of book one, this book definitely delivers on character development. It does still take about another 400ish pages to get there, but it delivers in spades. Lots of it. The characters grow and groan in believable and rewarding changes. 

This continues to deliver on being perhaps the best scifi-fantasy blend I've ever read. It has spaceships and technology, that can lead you to thinking like Star Wars, but with magic and a world that feels far more grounded in fantasy. The weaponry reads like a mix of flintlock-, civil war-, WWII-era with its mixture of pistols, rifles, bayonets and tanks. And yet when the magic wielders use handheld weapons, it just makes sense. 

The climax of this one launches and launches and launches. The warfare is dark, gritty, bloody, heartbreaking and terrible. Honestly, while reading the descriptors more than once throughout I was like...no wait, this is totally horror. And I feel like that horrid reality can often be lost in fantasy, so that was refreshing. 

Personally a 5/5*. Triumphantly a SEQUEL.