The leader will not allow her to leave secret underground location to help with THE CAUSE.Our protagonist is weakened from the events at the climax of the previous novel, leaving her unable to perform even simple tasks.This underground location has very strict rules and is run by a ruthless reader our protagonist doesn’t trust.Starts underground, in a location the protagonist didn’t even know existed before the beginning of this book (White Cathedral, District 13).In fact, let’s count all of the ways this book was exactly like Mockingjay.

This might be the most stock YA-trilogy-finale of all time. While definitely an improvement on the second book in the series, Ruin and Rising didn’t really have anything unique to offer. The firebird is the one thing that stands between Ravka and destruction-and claiming it could cost Alina the very future she’s fighting for. But as she begins to unravel the Darkling’s secrets, she reveals a past that will forever alter her understanding of the bond they share and the power she wields. Yet her plans lie elsewhere, with the hunt for the elusive firebird and the hope that an outlaw prince still survives.Īlina will have to forge new alliances and put aside old rivalries as she and Mal race to find the last of Morozova’s amplifiers. Now the nation’s fate rests with a broken Sun Summoner, a disgraced tracker, and the shattered remnants of a once-great magical army.ĭeep in an ancient network of tunnels and caverns, a weakened Alina must submit to the dubious protection of the Apparat and the zealots who worship her as a Saint. The Darkling rules Ravka from his shadow throne.

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