I also felt, even though Amani and Jin were together more in this book, their romance wasn’t anywhere near as convincing as it was in the first book. I felt like a lot of their strategies just didn’t make sense and they were putting themselves into danger for danger’s sake. I mean I get that she’s not a leader and she’s been thrown into this position that she really has no business being in but the girl can’t make a decision to save her life (sometimes literally) and I feel like this book undid a lot of the character development that she went through in Traitor of The Throne. I loved Sam, he was the saving grace of this story for me, his sass gave it some much needed levity! Amani seriously annoyed me in this book. I felt like I couldn’t really connect to the characters as well this time around. I felt my eyes glazing over so many times and that is never a good sign! A lot of the chapters were overly long for me as well, which didn’t help matters. If they had retrieved Ahmed and Shazad and co earlier then I feel like it might have worked a bit better, but they didn’t even come back into the story until 25 chapters in. But seriously, this book is 47 chapters long and for at least 40 of those, I felt like not much was really happening. There were a few action scenes, but they were few and far between and didn’t land as well for me as I would have liked them too. The pace was incredibly slow! For most of the book, it felt like absolutely nothing was happening. It was also great to finally have a map of Miraji, even if I wish it had been a slightly more detailed one! I liked that we started off with a character roundup, there are a lot of them, and it was good to have a reminder of who our major players were, who was alive, who was dead etc.

In the final battle for the throne, Amani must fight for everything she believes in, but with the rebellion in pieces, and the Sultan’s armies advancing across the desert plains, who will lead, who will triumph, who will live and who will die? There were others who said that the Rebel Prince was not a traitor but a hero… The heir had been killed by his own brother, the treacherous Rebel Prince, who was consumed by jealousy and sought the throne for himself. Once, in the desert country of Miraji, there was a Sultan without an heir. This book could easily have been 200 pages shorter than it was and it showed. There was A LOT of buildup and the actual fight for the throne? Yup super short and not all that satisfying. I was expecting a really high stakes, high action finale and I’m not sure that I really got that. I’m sad to say I was really disappointed. This was one of my most anticipated reads of 2018, I’ve been following this series since it started in 2016 and I was really excited to see how everything wrapped up.

Book: Hero At The Fall (Rebel of The Sands #3)

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