A Vicious Game by Melissa Blair
Blurb:
A new king is on the throne and the rebellion lies in ruins. Keera spends her days drinking and her nights avoiding the strange dreams that have haunted her since she returned from the capital.
Keera’s family in Myrelinth won’t let her go without a fight. With new intelligence about the magical seals left behind by Keera’s ancient kin, the Light Fae, she rallies to face her demons and unleash the formidable powers she inherited from her people. But a shocking truth is hiding in plain sight, one with the power to unravel the entire rebellion...
The pivotal third installment in the Halfling Saga will upend everything Keera thought she knew about her enemies…and her allies.
My Review:
⚠️ Spoiler warning — if you plan to read this series,
turn back now. I mean it.
Book three broke me. Completely and utterly broke me.
By this point I thought I understood what this series was capable of. I
was wrong. The pain in this installment is not the kind that sits quietly in
the background, it is loud and relentless and it gets into your chest and stays
there. Watching Keera fight just to be loved, trusted, and accepted by the
very people she would burn the world down for? Devastating does not cover it.
She is not asking for much. She never has been. She just wants to belong
somewhere, to not be used up and discarded for what she can offer and then left
the moment things get hard. And yet, the betrayals keep coming. One after
another, from people who should know better, who do know better. I was
furious on her behalf. I am still furious.
And underneath all of it, the grief she is carrying, the mourning that
has hollowed her out, the addiction she is drowning in because feeling nothing
is safer than feeling everything. It turned my stomach. It broke my heart. It
made me want to reach into the pages and tell everyone around her to leave
her alone and let her breathe.
Keera just wants what is best for her people. That is it. That is all she
has ever wanted. And they could not survive without her, and somehow that makes
it worse.
I had to put the series down after this one. I needed something soft and
sweet to come back to myself, and I have zero regrets about that decision.
Please check the trigger warnings before going into this book. Your
mental health matters more than finishing a series. Take care of yourself first,
Keera would want that.
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