Reign of the Talons

Paperback, 480 pages

English language

Published by Entangled Publishing, LLC.

ISBN:: 978-4-295-41015-7

How do you kill a prophecy? The Prophecy has arrived…and with her, war.

A prisoner caged within the walls of her own mind, the once-fierce assassin known as Shin Lina can do nothing but watch as a tide of blood and chaos sweeps across the Three Kingdoms. After all, Lina is the one who unleashed the malevolent Prophecy upon her world.

So many secrets. So many lies. And it’s all her fault.

Yet Haneul Rui—the immortal Dokkaebi Emperor who stole her heart—refuses to surrender. He alone leads the armies against the dangerous, serpentine Imugi. He alone wields his scorching fire atop blood-soaked battlefields, and he alone rallies his soldiers against a terrifying future of death and destruction.

Now the red thread of fate ties them all together in love and hatred—Rui, Lina, and the merciless Prophecy herself. And the more Lina fights against her destiny, the …

How do you kill a prophecy? The Prophecy has arrived…and with her, war.

A prisoner caged within the walls of her own mind, the once-fierce assassin known as Shin Lina can do nothing but watch as a tide of blood and chaos sweeps across the Three Kingdoms. After all, Lina is the one who unleashed the malevolent Prophecy upon her world.

So many secrets. So many lies. And it’s all her fault.

Yet Haneul Rui—the immortal Dokkaebi Emperor who stole her heart—refuses to surrender. He alone leads the armies against the dangerous, serpentine Imugi. He alone wields his scorching fire atop blood-soaked battlefields, and he alone rallies his soldiers against a terrifying future of death and destruction.

Now the red thread of fate ties them all together in love and hatred—Rui, Lina, and the merciless Prophecy herself. And the more Lina fights against her destiny, the tighter the thread becomes.

For they are bound in both life and death; to wound one is to wound them all. To kill the Child of Venom is to kill them all.

And soon, not even the wrathful gods themselves can stop their inevitable ruin.

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Taylor Drew reviewed Reign of the Talons by Sophie Kim (Talons, #3)

Passionate, spunky, and raw

5 stars

It's been awhile since I've had to review a book for a publisher instead of just myself, but the publisher of Reign of the Talons reached out to me to review the finale of the Talon trilogy, and since I reviewed the first two books and absolutely adored them, I was glad to accept.

This book was absolutely phenomenal. It was exactly what one hopes for in the finale of a trilogy. The characters remained compelling, tensions remained high, pacing wise appropriate for the direction the story took, there are things to be surprised about, and most importantly of all, it was necessary for this third book to exist. Not every trilogy can boast the same.

I remained completely enthralled with Lina and Rui from start to finish. Kim manages to show us new sides of every single character without bogging the story down. In fact, seeing these …

It's been awhile since I've had to review a book for a publisher instead of just myself, but the publisher of Reign of the Talons reached out to me to review the finale of the Talon trilogy, and since I reviewed the first two books and absolutely adored them, I was glad to accept.

This book was absolutely phenomenal. It was exactly what one hopes for in the finale of a trilogy. The characters remained compelling, tensions remained high, pacing wise appropriate for the direction the story took, there are things to be surprised about, and most importantly of all, it was necessary for this third book to exist. Not every trilogy can boast the same.

I remained completely enthralled with Lina and Rui from start to finish. Kim manages to show us new sides of every single character without bogging the story down. In fact, seeing these new sides is an absolute must that brings us to the conclusion of their stories. Readers of the previous books will know that things ended pretty rough in the second volume, and the third book jumps right back in at full speed. It's emotionally charged and passionate and fierce. And these are exactly the things that made me fall in love with these books and these characters in the first place. My heart clenched with theirs, I felt their agonies and sorrows, and it was a joy being with them from start to finish. Kind of a weird thing to say, I know.

This book and series as a whole aren't going to be for everyone. However, this is one of the most passionate, spunky, and raw books that I've ever read. I'm sad that the journey is over, but I am oh so glad of where it took me.