Mark This Book Monday: ARC Review of The Forever Song by Julie Kagawa!!!

For the final entry for this week's Mark This Book Monday I'm having an ARC that made me ignore everything else that I was reading and start it right away, even if I was completely exhausted that night after work! I have to say a big big THANK YOU to Harlequin Teen for approving my request for this one via NetGalley.

This one is part of three of challenges! As the final book of the Blood of Eden series is part of my 2014 Series Challenge, as a paranormal postapocalyptic dystopia it is part of my Dystopian Reading Challenge 2014 and since I got my eARC via NetGalley for review, it is part of my 2014 Review Pile Reading Challenge! Phew!

The Forever Song by Julie Kagawa

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


When I was approved for The Forever Song on NetGalley I was immediately running towards my eReader to get it to load, and I totally ignored whatever books I had pending to read, even The Winner's Curse, that I had just started! Thank you so very much to Harlequin Teen for approving my request for this book! Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!

This review is gonna be as spoiler free as possible, and trust me I'm gonna try my hardest! This was one amazing book to read without knowing what was coming, and I want you all to go into it as I did. That means it'll also be a bit vague. What you might expect is some spoilers for book 2, but nothing that you wouldn't get for reading the summary for this book. If you haven't started the series, just don't read this review and go read the books!

The Forever Song has to be one of the most perfect final books in a trilogy ever. I've been lucky to get some really great final books for a series this year, but this one... Wow. I wasn't sure what to expect after that ending in The Eternity Cure, but Julie Kagawa managed to surpass any expectations I had (and those I didn't know I had)!

This books is full of heartbreak and it shakes you in a way that you don't expect. Very early on I was saying "Noooooo, that can't beeee!" out loud! And the emotional scenes and onslaught to the heart continues for all the book, one way or another. With happy emotional to heartbreak and back again. There's plenty of action and we get a few unexpected twists to the plot here and there.

Allie has lost herself to the monster inside, she refuses to feel and keeps on telling herself it's better to not care and to treat humans as bloodbags, than to acknowledge the pain that carries inside after the death of Zeke. She only has one thing in her mind: Revenge. She wants to kill Sarren and she won't mind dying in the process as long as she takes him with her. Kanin isn't happy with her new mindframe but Jackal seems to be enjoying the new attitude on his blood-sister. It's heartbreaking to see her like this, and when the change comes it's even more emotional. First tears right there.

Then, as they continue to follow Sarren's trace trying to stop him ending the world, we encounter what I'd call the biggest shock of the book. Just, wow, it broke my heart right there. Second moment of tears.

Jackal becomes the voice of reason and common sense on more than one occasion and it really makes you think of messed up things really have to be for that, aye? Aye. He's one character I love to hate, and even if he annoys me sometimes, I wouldn't want him to be any other way.

There's more heartbreak and tears along the way, with more emotional moments, thankfully not all of them on the negative side, and quite a few that are just fantastic.

The ending is perfect. Full of hope for the future, even after all the massive heartbreak and sacrifices. I might not be happy with how it came to be, but once you stop to think about it, it's really fitting for the character and perfect for the storyline to come full circle. Sad and heartbreaking, but perfect. The brightest day comes after the darkest night and that is very much true for this book.

Very much deserving of 5 or more stars. Stock on the tissues before reading!



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