The Jasad Crown by Sara Hashem
I was worried about how this book was going to compare to book 1; would it be as strong? Would it wrap everything up satisfactorily? How many characters that I care about would die? It definitely lived up to expectations. I was on the edge of my seat, constantly. And the audiobook narrators did a spectacular job. There were four separate narrators so I do not know who was who, but whoever read for Sylvia; I am ready to pledge to fight for Jasad. And whoever read for Arin; whoever you hate I will destroy. The book starts with Arin and Sylvia as enemies, but that doesn't last long. Whenever she is having a panic attack her magic is teleporting part of her to him. He is the only thing that can calm her down. And at first he thinks he's losing his mind; that she's a hallucination. But then he realizes she's real and he's angry. It doesn't last. Their banter. Their yearning. Merrick and Sayfa are separated. He's now with the army, something he never wanted. She's become the personal attendance to what's-her-name with the ring. Jarou ends up with Merrick and gives him a side quest and basically protects him because if anything happens to him Sylvia will be upset which will make Arin upset. What's-her-name reveals that she has known how Sayfa is all along and Sayfa ends up cutting the ring off of her finger and making a run for it. She and Merrick are reunited, then Sayfa is taken to the wells. Arin gives the order that Jarou is to help Merrick get her out. Vaughn is back with Arin, but that doesn't last. There is a battle and Sylvia takes the Jasad army to protect the village she has been living in for years and in order to protect everyone she kidnaps Arin, which forces his army to search for him. She planned on letting him go once they got far enough way, except the magic forest that moves captured them and trapped them. It also stripped her of her magic, so they finally got to be together. Arin finally puts a bunch of metaphorical puzzle pieces together and realizes that this father has been using the magic that Arin strips from the Jasad people and he stores it in his scepter. So Arin cuts off his fathers hand to remove the scepter, which is attached to him by a cuff. Then he allows himself to be captured by the Jasads and allies himself with Sylvia and her people. They want him to take an oath to them and the crown, but instead he swears to Sylvia herself; who you hate, I will destroy. I swoon. One of her advisors tells them they need to get it together because everyone can see how desperately in love with each other they are. Then he and Jarou leave and Arin forces a vote of no confidence in his father and he takes over as Supreme. Then, he joins the battle in support of Sylvia. During the fighting Merrick dies. Now every child in his family has died in the army. Sayfa is not ok. Sylvia realizes that magic madness is and isn't real; it's the god Rovial being reincarnated every 100 years and the child not being able to handle the magic and the memories. But Sylvia had the cuffs on for years, hiding her magic, so she is able to deal with it. She raises the wall and then destroys it and herself which sends her to the afterlife. Arin tries to run to her and it takes like a lot of his own men to stop him, which he throws off and only stops fighting when Sayfa gets in the way. In the afterlife she is both Sylvia and Rovial. They tell her that magic is dying and they can bring it back to the lands by stripping themselves of their magic. She says lets do that, fast, because she doesn't want to return and have all of the people that she loves be gone. Arin is a shell of himself. He rules and rules well, but that is all he does. Then, on the 10 year anniversary of Sylvia's sacrifice, he is at the bridge, in the mist, and she returns. That is where the book ends. This was so good. I am probably going to buy the physical copies of this book so I can return to them whenever I want, I enjoyed this series that much.
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