Goodreads Synopsis:
Darkness never works alone…
Nadya doesn’t trust her magic anymore. Serefin is fighting off a voice in his head that doesn’t belong to him. Malachiasz is at war with who–and what–he’s become.
As their group is continually torn apart, the girl, the prince, and the monster find their fates irrevocably intertwined. They’re pieces on a board, being orchestrated by someone… or something. The voices that Serefin hears in the darkness, the ones that Nadya believes are her gods, the ones that Malachiasz is desperate to meet—those voices want a stake in the world, and they refuse to stay quiet any longer.
My Review:
This book was definitely… unpleasant. I was horrified by a large part of this, but it’s a horror novel. I knew that this was going to be more disturbing than Wicked Saints but I didn’t expect that much. While I did physically recoil from some of the excessive gore, I actually loved the book overall. In my opinion, the first half was a little confusing and worse than Wicked Saints but the second half really redeemed it and I am complete trash for Kacper now (lol as if I wasn’t before). The ending destroyed me, so please, maybe Blessed Monsters won’t be so cruel? Wishful thinking, but anyways…
I still have the same thoughts as before about recommendations. It’s like a really dark, confusing version of Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo. The Something Dark & Holy trilogy is just so good yet so horrifying. Do not read it if you don’t like horror, but it’s just a really great dark fantasy with some romance that doesn’t completely dominate the entire plot but definitely influences it.
I would rate this book…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5.
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