Book Title: Faithbreaker
Author: Hannah Kaner
Series: Fallen Gods #3
Date Started: May 13th 2025
Date Completed: June 5th 2025
Genres: Fantasy, Adventure, Action
Quality Rating: Four Stars
Enjoyment Rating: Three Star
Final Rating: Four Stars
Review:
What a series to dive into across a year. It definitely started on a high and felt like walking down a very long mountain to reach the valley at the bottom, in both the good and the bad of that. This final book had my attention drifting until two thirds in, but I admit I got goosebumps at the finale.
What I remember loving so much about Godkiller was the sense of an epic landscape and history woven in between this closely whispered story of a trio of strangers and a rogue little god. In Faithbreaker, those characters and their lives had been so lost in the noise, the sweeping war, the tumultuous world building, and the cresting wave of the plot that at times they felt almost forgotten.
I miss what was achieved in that first book, but I especially miss knowing Kissen like the back of my hand, longing for Elo to find what was right for him, for Inara to stand her ground and Skedi to win me over. By the end they felt most like pieces on a chess board - which is thrilling in itself, but not quite how I wanted to part with them.
That all being said, I have to praise the vast normalised representation that is so organic and natural you almost forget it's there. The ease at which Kaner paints all of her characters in hopes and beliefs and ambitions, not regardless of their backgrounds - their disabilities, race, gender, class, sexual orientation etc etc - but because of or in spite of it. It felt effortless and I would really love to read more stories that make it so.
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