Water's Wrath by Elise Kova

"The Solaris Empire found victory in the North and, at the cost of her heart and her innocence, Vhalla Yarl has earned her freedom. But the true fight is only beginning as the secret forces that have been lurking in the shadows, tugging at the strings of Vhalla's fate, finally come to light. Nowhere is safe, and Vhalla must tread carefully or else she'll fall into the waiting arms of her greatest foe. Or former lover."--Page 4 of cover.

CAWPILE SCORE
C-7
A-7
W-8
P-7
I-8
L-6
E-8

Fun book. Glad to see the characters figuring things out for themselvesCAWPILECharactersVhalla: takes some time off. Figures some things out. Still way too hot headed. But I believe it as a former teenager. Glad she cooled off and finally let herself still love the prince. Fritz: nice supporting CharacterVictor: very subtle decline into madness, well done. I called that he would be bad though. I knew he was going to do something bad, but I thought it was more about Crystals and not ALLPOWER CROWN CRYSTALSEmperor Solaris: lost his bite. Crazy if he wants to keep expanding against people with stronger magic especially. As much as I hated him. Having him actually die was odd to meEgmun: the worst thing about Know-It-All's is they never actually tell you anything useful. Its you or the world... Why? If you told her maybe it'd make a differenceAldrick: true grief at his brothers death. Bold in his statements. Changed for Vhalla, Kept changing for himself.Baldair: ............ Why did you have to kill him. I liked him finally.AtmosphereWherever Vhalla goes it feels real. Very Immersive especially around Baldairs Death.WritingContinues to be good. Subtle foreshadowing of things that will happen. I even figured out a couple of them.PlotA nice change up to what has happened before. With no war to continue on. Vhalla finds herself and then goes back to the capital after getting kidnapped once. Reunites with Aldrick and then Accidently Unleashes Victor the Crazed.InvestmentI was so glad to learn about the magic. More than I thought we were going to get and to learn about Crystals corrupt people. I am so glad that my continued pushing of Aldrick and Vhalla back together came through in the end for me.It widens channels, and twists and deforms.LogicCharacters stayed true to their motives and like in real life, they changed their mind and realized they were being dumb after they had a bit of time away from that fact.EnjoymentCompletely enjoyed this book once I actually started it.MiscJax Lives. And for some reason I completely forgot he was a firebearerI knew Victor was racist against commoners nearly the first time he opened his mouth this book.Vhalla finally listening to multiple people telling her to fight for AldrickVhalla sticking to her morals and not being the side girlAxe, Sword, Scythe, and Crown. Feel like I need a fifthRose is the stupidest passcode he could createEgmun the Cryptic. Doom but I can't tell you why. Only vague things I refuse to elaborate on. Because I can, and because I personally don't like you.

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A romance once against frustrates me to no end, whilst warming my heart against the backdrop of pain, heartbreak and death.

A new hope blooms in the most hopeless and terrible of situations.
A woman tested in fire finds herself powerless against the greatest power she has faced.
A man feels his heart shatter just as it is made whole again.
An ancient power in the hands of a cunning zealot unleashes Death on an usurped empire.
A battle must be fought.

‘Water's Wrath” is the fourth novel of the ‘Air Awakens” series written by Elise Kova. The war in the North is over and Vhalla has won her freedom along with the war.

Vhalla and Aldrik's relationship is explored after the events of the third novel. Aldrik and Baldair's brotherly relationship grows throughout the story and in this particular novel it peaks. This novel made me cry at some parts. I gave this novel a 4/5 stars.

Something about Elise Kova's cliffhangers that I was not privy to before reading the Air Awakens series is how unsettling they feel. Having only read her Married To Magic series which all have their own finales, I was blindsided by her way of completely swinging me off my feet in the last 80% of her series novels. Kova does an excellent job of making me want to continue reading her stories, no matter how unhappy I am with the way she chose to go about the cliffhanger of the novel before.