H Cara,
All good things must come to an end as today review is Sword and Pen by Rachel Caine. Soard and Pen in the fifth and final booik in the Great Library series.
Below are my reviews on the previous 4 books in the series.
The future of the Great Library is in doubt.
The corrupt Archivist the leader of the Great library has fallen. But Archvisit wants his power back, and he will stop at nothing to get it.
The Library is under siege from the Archvisit loyalist and from outside empires and kingdoms. The future for the Library, Jess and his friends are uncertain. They must come together as never before to save the Great Library, and help finds its place in this new world.
Sword and Pen perfectly end the Great Library Series.
Sword and Pen has action, drama, puzzles and betrayal. Every page was full of either emotion, action or details that kept me hooked from the beginning to the teary end.
As a twin, Jess grief and questions about being a sole surviving twin really hit me. The quote, “Did grief hurt this way? like a sickness.” really resonate with me.
One of the elements that I will take away from this series is that family isn’t just blood. It shows that the most unlikely people can become a family for each other, a illustrated perfectly with Wolfe, Jess, Thomas, Khalila, Glain, Dario, Morgan and Santi.
Throughout the series, I have grown to like all the characters. The one character who surprised me the most in Sword and Pen was Dario. It’s nice to see his true self with Khalila, and the struggle with his divided loyalties.
I was worried about everything that happened in Smoken and Iron that certain elements wouldn’t be resolved. But I needn’t of worried. Everything felt resolved by the end.
FYI Wolfe and Santi are still one of my favourite bookish couple.
My rating for Sword and Pen is 5 out of 5.
Thank you to Netgalley and Allison and Busby for the ebook copy of Sword and Pen for a fair and honest review.
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