astarion's bhaal babe (wingspan matters)'s Reviews > Lightbringer

“The empirium speaks to you,” Eliana said, tearing her eyes from Remy to find Rielle once more. “It speaks to me too. It tells me to rise. It tells me it is mine and that I belong to it. But I belong only to myself. And it is the same for you.”

Apparently I survived this trilogy and my heart is still intact.
Don't know how you guys feel about it but I think I deserve an award.
Seriously, though, Claire Legrand just made it into my list of Authors Who Lovingly Torture Their Readers and I think she's not topping only because Leigh Bardugo and Victoria Schwab exist.

Lightbringer was the perfect ending for this series, but it also is the book I liked less out of the whole trilogy.
Let me elaborate before you get the wrong idea.
For one, it was a bit too long. I appreciated the various and new POVs we got, but I also had some trouble up with the insanely slow plot. I flew through the first two books especially because the chapters were short and the plot super fast, so the fact that this book was so long despite being the last one, put me off a little.
Second, I still have some questions and I can't tell if I missed something while reading or if the author purposely forgot about/left out stuff. I'll pack my doubts and bring them to Book Reddit, just in case.
And last, although it's not that important and mostly related to how I reacted to this book in terms of feelings than about the book's technicalities, I expected Lightbringer to wreck me and, while it indeed made me suffer a huge deal and those last 10 chapters made me feel like a lost puppy (chapter 45 (view spoiler)[where Rielle and Eliana have a confrontation made me ugly cry (hide spoiler)], it also left me a bit unsatisfied.
It surely was filled with angst and moments that made me wanna tear my eyes out, but it was also full of dull moments and filling scenes that toned down the rest.
Example 1: the ending!!
Example 2: (view spoiler)[Simon and Eliana's reconciliation was too fast! My girl wouldn't have caved so easily after all she went through 😤 I love them together, though, so I'm not complaining, but it felt a bit inconsistent. (hide spoiler)]

Now, about the things I truly deeply madly loved.
Eliana and Remy and Audric, first and foremost. My heart is theirs, now and forever.
Then, Legrand's world-building is simply epic and the way she writes her actions scenes is chef-kiss worthy.
I also appreciated how, despite everything the characters went through and the obvious changes they came with, they remained coherently similar to the characters they first were.
Anywayz, I wish I could recommend this trilogy to all the people I know, even those who don't like to read, because it's just that good😭