Oh, sure, there are eldritch horror-style old gods rising, and the various horrible mistakes all three of our leads have made -destroying Tranavia’s blood magic, killing a Kalyazi god, and becoming chaos itself – may have broken the world beyond saving. This was probably never going to be a tale that had a truly happy ending, but Blessed Monsters feels necessarily complete, what with almost everyone having died, come back to life, and sacrificed various bits of their bodies along the road to achieving something like peace by the end.Īs a finale to a trilogy, there’s actually not a tremendous lot that actually happens in this book. The series concludes with a third and final installment, titled Blessed Monsters, that ties everything up in a way that ultimately feels satisfying, even if some of the edges remain a bit jagged. Yet it is also compulsively readable, emotionally rich, and utterly surprising in almost every way.
The pitch-black series is a disturbing tale of blood magic, vengeful gods, and tortured relationships, with an unrelenting affinity for madness and gore.
Duncan’s Something Dark and Holy trilogy is a bit of an anomaly in the world of YA fantasy.
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