The Empire of Gold: 3 (Daevabad Trilogy)

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I actually don’t mind having my soul crushed 😂 A Little Life crushed it in the best way possible; though I am now in a serious dilemma because how could anything I read next possibly compare? Exploring more of the political ramifications of the war and getting rid of the monarchy for an exchange of a council.

Even though it's a dangerous job, she teams up with Tae-joo to take down the Choi family and their business empire.Chakraborty concludes her Daevabad trilogy with such emotional anguish that readers will come away needing time to mourn the loss of such a great series and time to process the events taken place. People were not considered truly educated until they had done significant traveling, seen a bit of the world. This is the romance Nahri always deserved, with a man who loves and respects her, who is her friend not just her lover, and who can treat her like an equal. Props to Chakraborty for making Sobek and Tiamat marids; I love that she went for regional deities that, apparently, have a basis in reality. Nahri and Ali finally open up to each other, tell the whole truth, and – who’d have thought – it turns out they make a really good team.

Ali also demonstrates a strength that I don’t think his father had, the strength to sacrifice for his people. Of course, doing so also means that they have to confront their own pasts, and as readers we also bear witness to the shocking revelations that take place throughout the novel, including the reveal that Nahri is Manizheh’s niece rather than her daughter and that Ali is himself descended from the Nile marid Sobek. So much anticipation to see how the series turns out, and it was no different with The Empire of Gold, last book of the Daevabad trilogy. Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book from Harper Voyager and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. While I was deeply upset with the decision not to bring them together, I understood that people change.The places in which I was grinning like a fool: when Dara uses Manizeh’s words against her and tricks her into letting him kill her, when Ali’s siblings made fun of him, and when Jamshid found out that he was a Nahid. So much of what happens to him in this book, either makes you want to shake some sense into him, because how can he be blind to Manizheh’s actual goals, or your heart just breaks.

The “noble sacrifice” is a lazy trope for villain redemption, and I couldn’t be happier at how Chakraborty chucks it in the bin. But Nahri has grown into being Banu Nahida, and she knows that neither she nor Ali will be happy in Egypt. But whilst in Cairo, Nahri starts to wonder whether going back is such a good idea and that she could have a pretty normal life in Cairo but Ali snaps her out of it and reminds her that her responsibility lies with the people of Daeva and that they have to do something to stop Manizheh.The brass walls were tarnished, the edifices—on closer inspection—riddled with missing bricks and blackened mortar. Well, everyone is back in force and then some and I’m pleased to say that the character growth is great.

On top of all that, I really didn’t care for how much they hid from the reader about how they were going to defeat Manizheh. Fiza, however--God bless her--had stopped finding anything about his transformation intimidating and treated him with her normal base level of rudeness. The inspiration and motivation is palpable and you will miss out on a veritable wealth of goodness if you try to jump on board at this point – well, at best you’ll miss out – at worst you’ll be in a positive world of hurt with absolutely no idea what’s going on. this book caught my attention thanks to its marvelous cover, I am glad I read this review because now I know that there are two books that I should read before getting to The Empire of Gold.

His chapters were heavy and kind of dark while he came to terms with what he’s done, what he did, the conflicting emotions between what he’s trained to do, and what he feels is morally right. The Daevabad trilogy up till this point has been largely confined to either Daevabad or Egypt, so it was pretty cool to get to see Ta Ntry in this book and discover more of the world Chakraborty has created here. Go Soo and Sunwoo Eunsook reunited with each other 1 decade after they worked in another SBS TV series My Fair Lady where Sunwoo portrayed as the mother of Go Soo's character also. I guess it will always be hard to meet the expectation of the fandom for a series this expansive – I just wish the ending was overall a bit more memorable. I appreciated that recovery from the events of the book were presented as a work in progress because that felt realistic, but I would’ve liked something that felt more conclusive.