The Vanishing Throne by Elizabeth May
Hello Books Lovers,
for those who follow me on instagram knows that in the past few days I have launched various polls in my stories to make you decide what my future readings would be. Out of 8 initial books, four remained. I very much appreciate the great response from you in the votes. Of these 4 books I should have read only two, always chosen by the polls, but in the end I decided that I would have read all four in order of votes. The books chosen were, in order, Cinder by Marissa Meyer, Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson, Ash princess by Laura Sebastien and The Vanishing Throne by Elizabeth May.
We have reached the last book of this summer TBR which is about to give space to an immense, IMMENSE, August / September TBR, which if you like to peek, from Thursday will be online on my tiktok. @meandbooksblog is the user if you want to follow me there too, I give bookish advice and I hope much more soon, I have just started.
Anyway, moving on to this review, I finally read The Vanishing Throne, a sequel to The Falconer, a book released in Italian by Sperling & Kupfer years ago, and which I think I have reread, realistic number, 7/8 times. The Falconer has become, from the first time I read it, one of my favorite fantasy books for the characters, storytelling, plot, and Scottish setting. However, I had never taken the courage to continue the trilogy because the first volume ended on a cliffhanger, as well as the second. Elizabeth May likes to make her readers suffer and last year, she and Laura Lam published Seven Devils, the first of a duology, I think, sci-fi.
At the beginning of The Vanishing Throne, a few years after my last reading of the first volume, I couldn’t remember why I loved this story so much, but that’s when he came back, Kiaran, purple eyes, black hair, handsome but damned , with a penetrating gaze, I remembered everything. And I still believe that his role in the story should be larger, more present in more scenes, and maybe even have a book of his own about his past, that would be phenomenal.
The Vanishing Throne more or less picks up on the story where it left off at the end of The Falconer, with Aileana trapped and held prisoner by Lonnrach. Being a second volume I have no idea what to say without spoiling it, so I will try to give a general overview. I think by now it is understood that I recommend the series. I will never regret reading it, even if now I have to find the courage to finish it.
The known world has now been destroyed by fairies, and Aileana has spent 3 years locked in a room of mirrors, she has no idea what the real world is like. But then she is saved, as we can obviously imagine, by Kiaran and her sister, his twin. Little by little she meets her old friends, survivors, and she sees the destruction with her eyes.
Her goal has always been to kill Sorcha, the fairy who killed her mother and all the falconers before her, but now she must also eliminate Lonnrach, who happens to be Sorcha’s brother. Through various sources, however, she will discover many other things, about her role, about the past of Kiaran and her sister, and in the end she will have to make a very important decision.
But Aileana knows what to do, and can I have my say? Although Kiaran is a fairy, immortal, and I / Aileana are human, I would always choose the way to be next to Kiaran, until the end. Only if you know the character will you be able to understand these words of mine. I don’t know why fairies, dangerous creatures, quite the opposite of Tinker Bell, are the ones that intrigue the most. Take Kiaran, or Rhysand, or Kieran and Mark. They leave everyone speechless.
