Week 38 Review: The Bronzed Beasts

From Goodreads:

Returning to the dark and glamorous 19th century world of her 'New York Times' instant best-seller, 'The Gilded Wolves', Roshani Chokshi dazzles us with the final riveting tale as full of mystery and danger as ever.

In love they breathed. In destiny they believed. In the end, will divinity be their demise?

After Séverin's seeming betrayal, the crew is fractured. Armed with only a handful of hints, Enrique, Laila, Hypnos and Zofia must find their way through the snarled, haunted waterways of Venice, Italy to locate Séverin.

Meanwhile, Séverin must balance the deranged whims of the Patriarch of the Fallen House and discover the location of a temple beneath a plague island where the Divine Lyre can be played and all that he desires will come to pass.

With only ten days until Laila expires, the crew will face plague pits and deadly masquerades, unearthly songs and the shining steps of a temple whose powers might offer divinity itself...but at a price they may not be willing to pay.

My Review:
This was such a fantastic end to the series! It was a bit heartbreaking as well, but oh, was it wonderful! After where these characters were left after the end of The Bronzed Beasts, well, I had to see how things would conclude, and oh, it was such a ride!

Just a note, that I did listen to this as an ARC audiobook through NetGalley. I am new to audiobooks, mainly because I have trouble understanding what people are saying. So with this book, some of these characters are French, so there are accents, which between me being a newbie audiobook listener and my listening problem, sometimes it was hard to understand. But if you've been listening to this series from audiobook from the beginning, it should be no problem for you!

I didn't know where this book would go. They were all in such precarious situations, with Séverin infiltrating the Fallen House, Laila, Enrique, and Zofia (and secretly Hypnos) left behind in the cavern, supposedly dead, well, I had to know where things were going to go from there!

While the main plotline of this book is about getting to the temple with the lyre, there's also the fact that most of the gang have complicated feelings for Séverin, because of what he did, and what he has done throughout this series. And on the one hand, he's remorseful for it, but on the other, he still wants to become a god, and very much keeping the blinders on, focused on the goal.

Oh, but that ending! Though it did work out, that did hurt. I'm glad that they were all together, and could support each other, that was really great. But still, that ending was just a little bittersweet right up until the very end. 

I have since read that since the response to this series has been cruel because it uses the same tropes as Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo, that we won't continue in this world any time soon. Which frustrates me and makes me sad. Found family and heist stories are tropes, they are not a one and done sort of thing, more than one person can use them, Leigh Bardugo didn't create them-not books, but Oceans 11 anyone? Some people can really just ruin it for the rest of us, and treat authors this poorly, and it really sucks! 

Loved reading this book so much, it was a fantastic read! 

Author: Roshani Chokshi
Series: The Gilded Wolves #3
Read: September 18th, 2021
Source: NetGalley 
Reason Why: Love her writing and this series, and it's a End of Series 2021 Book, Historical Fiction 2021 Book, Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2021 Book and a WoW Book!
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Published: September 21st 2021

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars