A Monsoon Rising by Thea GuanzonMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Oh. My. God.
Oh my good giggty good, this book was SO GOOD that the ending nearly made me fall out of my chair (not really, BUT STILL).
Talasyn and Alaric are my favorite characters/couple so far this year, and I enjoyed how they dealt with the marriage while also dealing with the dangers of the Voidfell, and how they dealt with the politics of their countries. I did cackle out loud when Elgabi showed up at the library one time, looking like he was going to straight-up cook our boy Alaric, but somehow kept his calm and talked to him with very sweet whiskey, and the two had an understanding.
The action in this book, though it was less of it than in the first book, was pretty good, but the building of the romance to the spice (even though I don't care about spice in books like this, I really care about how the romance is built between the characters and are they gonna fit) was so well done. I liked how they fit, how they worked together, and how jealous Alaric got at the ball.
BUT THAT ENDING?!
THAT. ENDING.
I need book three in my hands NOW. Because how dare you end it like that, and now I'm thinking that that certain character is a spy for the Night Empire, or is the Regent taking over this girl?! I need more, and I wanna know how Talasyn and Alaric can get out of this one and save the world yet again.
My favorite part of all of this is the dragon-riding part and putting an ancient dragon back to sleep after waking up after all this time. I almost cried reading this part, mostly because I was worried about Talasyn and Alaric and hoped that they didn't fall. I'm glad they didn't and Talasyn put Bakrun back to sleep, but that was the most fun I've read in a book in a long time.
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