Cormel, Undead Master vampire, is finally tired of
waiting for Rachel to discover how to preserve their souls after death. He
wants results and he wants them now – or Ivy dies.
You’d think angry Master vampires would be enough for
anyone to deal with – but the Dewar of the elves is forming their own plans –
machinations that could have dire consequences not just for the vampires caught
in their manipulations – but the future of magic itself.
Throw in Earthbound demons, pixies that can’t fly and the
elven goddess coming back and gunning for Rachel and it feels like everything
is collapsing at once – and only Rachel can put it together again.
This is the last of the Hollows Series and I’m not sure
how to react to that
Actually, that’s a lie. I react to that by weeping inconsolably, running around the house babbling incomprehensibly in between screaming “WHYYYYYYYYYY?! at an uncaring sky before huddling in a corner, clutching my tablet and rocking back and forth, occasionally pleading with the universe for just one more book.
But that rather lacks dignity, it has to be said.
This book, the last book (NOOOOO), just makes all of that
even worse! Because it is pretty much the perfect ending to the Hollows Saga,
it draws upon so much that has made this series awesome ; it manages to both
perfectly cap this awesome series and remind me how awesome this series is and
how it CANNOT END! NOOOOO!
Ok, I’m trying to write a coherent review, I really am –
but all I keep hearing is “NOOOOOOOOOOOO!” repeating over and over in my head.
This story brings together this awesome world, bringing
it back to its core and underscoring everything we’ve already learned – that
basically nearly everything out there is a result of the Elves vs Demon
conflict – the vampires and their lack of souls and their whole toxic society
and culture, the weres, the witches, the curses on the elves and the demons,
the ever-after, ley lines etc. I love how the power of this is shown through
the eyes of those around Rachel – especially Trent and Al – we see that hatred
that is saturated in their cultures but we also see the guilt; the awareness of
the sheer atrocities both species have inflicted not just on each other but
also on the world in general is really prevalent throughout the book.
Another constant reminder is just how broken their world actually is – how everything is pretty much wrong; like the undead vampires and their constant, normalised abuse, the FIB and their inability to enforce the law and the IS and their unwillingness to do so and so many other little hints.
