3.5 of 5 stars at The BiblioSanctum http://bibliosanctum.com/2014/12/26/a...It is worth noting that I listened to the audiobook version of this, whereas I read the print or ebook copy of the previous two books in the trilogy. I mention this because it probably affected my rating. For some books the reading versus listening experience can vary greatly, and this is one of those cases. But more on that later.First, I want to start off by saying that Endsinger is a great conclusion to the series. Af...

Okay, so you know how sometimes when you have a fever and you’re all achy and you have the chills, your skin is like, really absurdly sensitive? And it hurts to wear clothes but if you take off your clothes you’ll be cold and get the fever shivers, so you wear the clothes, and you can feel everything, from all over your arm hairs and back hairs (and all the other hairs, too), and after a while all of the sensations together actually start to hurt collectively, because it’s just too much sensatio...

Stormdancer = PerfectKinslayer = Nerve wrackingEndsinger = Tears, snot and comfort food.And we know this. We know this is coming and yet, and yet, and yet.BREAKING NEWS:I received these words of comfort from Jay Kristoff regarding the ending of Endsinger:"I didn't kill the puppy at least."With that, I hope you sleep well at night until November.

The last in the series and it certainly ended in style! A huge battle where many favourite characters died and then a chapter which nicely rounded everything off by showing what happens in the future. Plus a really sweet last page which should bring a happy tear to most reader's eyes. Those things I liked. On the other hand the book was over padded with lengthy descriptions which occasionally made it boring and easy to put down. And I felt that Yukiko was lost in the busyness of the whole book.

Short review, yada yada yada...Endsinger tells the beautifully heartbreaking story of Yukiko and Buruu, her Arashitora "storm tiger", and how they save the world together. I won't go into details, but...The trilogy is worth reading, as you can see. I would've given it 5 stars, but the Kin-Yukiko romance was tender, but far in between. But, given my past review of Kinslayer, i owe some apologies.Kin, i am sorry. I should've trusted you. You made a promise, and i didn't believe it would come true....

This is the conclusion to the Lotus War series which I have been totally loving recently and a bit absorbed in, so I am sad that it's over now. I think that this is one of the coolest stories I have read recently with all the awesome ideas, the wonderful relationships and friendships, and the cool plot and world. Basically if you like the first two in this series then this is just as epic, if far more war like and brutal. There's a lot of very dark, sad and twisty moments where I didn't guess wh...

Hah, look at this placeholder description:Final Chapter of The Lotus War TrilogyLike Kristoff's not dead set on ripping our hearts out and making bloody soup with the remains.

SpoilersA pretty decent conclusion to the series, there were a lot of entertaining parts, great characters, and quite a few twists and turns. Unfortunately, there were also some boring and predictable parts in between all the goodness, not to mention the odd insufferable character or two.-I didn't enjoy how long it took for things to really kick off, everything was so slow and there was way too much set up/build up to the last part of the story. Also, some of the action scenes were really dragge...

Definitely the best book of the three. The series shows a nice, solid progression, and culminates well in this final installment.It was possibly a tad longer than it needed to be, but it did provide a genuinely exciting and emotional conclusion.

And that pretty much sums up the roller coaster ride of this book.People I thought would live died, people I thought would die lived. I mean along the way so many have been killed I knew that not everyone would make it to the end. There are some great happy hopeful moments in this. There are also so fantastically tragic ones. Then there are the moments you knew were coming and still you weren't sure you were ready for them. I was not ready for some of them.But the characters in this were never

*cries* that ending!!!' NOOOOOO I'm suffering from extreme book hangover.. *sniffs*--If I can describe this book in one word, I would have to say brutal. It’s the book we were all waiting for. The last book where we find out what happens when Shima goes to war. Who will help? What sacrifices will be made? Who will die? We all find out and I’m still trying to pull myself together to write this review.As always with Jay’s books, he includes several different plot-lines with all the characters and

This was my editor after reading ENDSINGER: This was my wife:My crit partners: My copy editor: My agent: Some kid I met in the street who looked like Toby MacGuire: And this was meSo . . . enjoy!<3

I don't even know how to feel right now.

I’m not okay 😭

what's the point of anything anymore

For more reviews, Cover Snark and more, visit A Reader of Fictions.The Lotus War is coming to an end, one way or another. I’m here to assure you that Jay Kristoff’s trilogy doesn’t prat fall in the final volume. Endsinger is everything I hoped and dreamed it would be, only more. For the uninitiated, here’s my pitch: Kristoff’s fantasy is sort of like Joss Whedon combined Game of Thrones, and will make you laugh and cry in equal measure. That’s really the best way I can sum up the pain and wonder...

The stunning conclusion of Jay Kristoff's "The Lotus War" trilogy. The book starts slowly, although I do like the way he summarizes the prior two installments via a review of characters, recapping developments and stating where they are now. As momentum builds, there are more twists and turns than San Francisco's Lombard Street (and dare I say it, a Harlan Coben novel.) There are incredible highs and lows, both literal and figurative for an almost too larger cast of characters. Endsinger does no...

Actual rating 4.5 starsFor quite a while I hadn't been doing a lot of reading on this not because it was boring or anything but because I'd been quite busy.But first the cover of my edition was the prettiest of all the feeling of being transported to a far eastern setting was definitely there... Heck it was there on my editions of the second and first books too21Many other people were saying they preferred these covers..I can see how these covers make the story look more badass but that's not re...

It's been close to a month since I finished reading this book, and I still haven't been able to completely fill the void this book left inside of me. The ending is absolutely heartbreaking - of course it is! If you expected anything else from Kristoff, either you've learned absolutely nothing from Stormdancer and Kinslayer, or you are unbelievably, almost psychotically optimistic, in which case, may the gods bless your foolish little heart because this book is going to rip it out of your che

Oh. My. God. Yup... that was my reaction upon completing this book. I was tempted to just leave it there all by itself and call it a day, but then I realized I was on the blog tour and I'm not sure that would work for a review. I will tell you, I binge read the Lotus War series. I had had Stormdancer on my to read list since before it came out and for good reason, but I just kept not reading it...even though all the reviews I'd seen and read about it claimed it was amazing. And I'm not going to