The Shadow Throne
Ratings17
Average rating3.8
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Ratings17
Average rating3.8
Jennifer A. Nielsen takes readers on an extraordinary journey in this final installment of the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling Ascendance Trilogy. War is coming...Join Jaron as he embarks on his final adventure!
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5 primary booksAscendance is a 5-book series with 5 primary works first released in 2012 with contributions by Jennifer A. Nielsen.
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The first book in this trilogy is my favorite the next 2 books seem like the same scenario over and over. But I love the characters and the dialog.
“Sacrificing oneself so that others might live was the ultimate act of love.” (chapter 35)
As you may know, fantasy/royalty books are not really my jam, so the fact that I've stuck with this through the whole trilogy definitely speaks to the quality of these books. I love Jaron! I love a sassy, more-capable-than-he-seems teenage boy king, it turns out. I didn't remember all of the details of the last 2, but enough to know that this resolves a lot of balls that were thrown in the air in the last 2 books.
I also normally hate meditations on ~the meaning of being royalty~ but Jaron makes it kind of tolerable.
I also really liked how Jaron resolved things with Amarinda and Tobias.
I was kind of disappointed about Imogen, I guess? This WHOLE TIME I've been assuming that she would turn out to be some kind of, IDK, secret princess or something? But I guess she's just legit a ~beautiful servant~? I guess that's fine? I don't know. I feel like her love story with Jaron was never as developed as Jaron's love story with Carthya. Oh well.
