She’s a martyr.
A myth.
A ghost.
A legend.
She’s my soulmate and my captive, my conscience and my wrath. I love her too much to let her die; I fear her too much to wake her from her slumber.
She’s mine.
And now she’s gone.
He’s unnatural.
Undying.
Unethical.
Unstoppable.
He’s the keeper of lies and lost souls. Mine slipped through his clutches.
I am his wife, his queen, the love of his very long … clutches.
I am his wife, his queen, the love of his very long life.
And soon, I will be his executioner.
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I am so blown away! What a book hangover I am suffering! This was an incredible read. I loved the characters: Serenity who is so broken, but has so much heart, compassion and strength and Montes who is such a despicable person, but who is not completely beyond redemption. The writer just twists your soul into knots while you read her incredible story. This one will stay with me for a long time! I loved it.
“As pretty as her body might be, it’s not what’s captivated me. I can’t look away from her face. In another life it might’ve been sweet. But not in this one. A Wicked scar slices down the side of it. It’s the most obvious warning that she’s a dangerous creature.”—Montes Lazuli
Fallen World is the story of Serenity Freeman but you can’t tell Serenity’s story without Montes Lazuli. He is, after all, her boogeyman, her monster, and in the end he’ll be her catalyst.
Serenity is a soldier in the Western United Nations. Over the course of her young life a cataclysmic war rages that strips her of her mother, her home, her country, and her innocence. Forced to take a life at the age of 12 due to war Serenity is not your typical hero. She’s a hardened vicious soul, broken in all the wrong places and her jagged edges will cut you bloody if you cross her. Serenity is not a shining example of goodness, some unattainable paragon of virtue and she doesn’t pretend to be. She’s the anti-hero of this story, the young woman forced onto the stage of political intrigue and tasked with the duty of ending the war between the West and the East.
Montes Lazuli is the undying king that kicked off World War 3. It started with a plague that swept through Europe making room for Montes to rise from obscure wealthy businessman to the King of the East. He’s been waging war on the Western United Nations and now their surrender is at hand. When the WUN sends Serenity and her Father as emissaries to negotiate peace Montes is captivated by this viscous, hardened woman. He sees Serenity as a challenge. Perhaps his greatest war will be, not in claiming land but in claiming her.
Serenity’s story takes place over three books. The overall arching story has great themes of diplomacy, morality, feminism and threading through it all the greatest themes, love and forgiveness. Laura Thalassa weaves a masterful post-apocalyptic story that at times feels very authentic and relevant to present day. It’s a bit sobering to see how this fictional future could very easily become a non-fictional one and that’s the sign of a master storyteller.
“For the first time in a hundred years, my soul flares to life, my heart along with it. And it hurts so fucking bad.
No one’s ever been in my situation, so I couldn’t have foreseen that love doesn’t function as other things do. It took decades for it to fade, and an instant for it to come roaring back.”
The perfect and unexpected conclusion to an incredible series! Laura sure knows how to rock my world.
Epic!
Other than the repetition about the heroine planning to kill the king, this book was just as amazing as the first two. The heroine remains true to her fighting spirit even as she struggles with her feelings for the king. Montes has actually evolved and while he is still just as ruthless, he is ruthless in a different way and over different issues. This one had some freaking amazing twists that I never in a million jillion years expected. With a nice epilogue that gives us a broad peek at the future, I was pretty happy with not only this book but the whole series.
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Dual POV although mostly the heroine
So sad to see this series end but it ended with no questions left unanswered about the main characters of this series…remember I only said no unanswered questions about the MAIN CHARACTERS!