Format: Paperback, 544 pages
Release Date: December 6, 2022
Publisher: Orbit
Source: NetGalley
Genre: Fantasy / Epic
The Rooks and Ruin
series concludes with this epic fantasy bursting with intrigue and
ambition, questioned loyalties, and broken magic as Ryx fights to defeat
the demons and save everything she loves.
The Dark Days have
returned. The Demon of Carnage mercilessly cuts through villagers and
armies. The Demon of Corruption rots the land. The Serene Empire and the
Witch Lords race towards war. And in the middle of it all stands
Rxyander, the Warden of Gloamingard.
Burdened by conflicting
loyalties and guilt, Ryx searches desperately for a way to defeat the
demons before the world she loves is completely destroyed. To find
answers, she’ll have to return to where it all started…the black tower
at the heart of Gloamingard.
By blood the Door was opened and only by blood will the Dark Days end.
The Ivory Tomb, by author Melissa Caruso, is the third and final installment in the authors Rook and Ruin trilogy. This book takes place 150 years after the ending of the authors Swords and Fire series. As the granddaughter of an immortal Witch Lord (Lady of Owls) of Vaskandar and a line of Royal Vivomancers, Exalted Ryxander (Ryx) of Morgrain once was afraid to touch anyone for fear of killing them. Unfortunately, she did just that after protecting herself from a visitor eager to gain access to Gloamingard's Black Door.
Ryx blood accidentally released several of the Nine Demons including Hunter, Carnage, Corruption, Despair, Nightmare, and Madness. Discord had already found a host in one of the immortal Witch Lords. Ryx recently learned that she's also a host to a certain demon that may be the most brutal of all the 9 demons. On a positive note, Ryx has found a home among a group of people who belong to the Rookery - a group of special agents dealing with out-of-bound magical phenomena - including Asheva, Bastian, Foxglove, Kessa, as well as former Shrike Lord Severin.
To make matters worse, The Dark Days have returned. The period 4,000 years ago when the demons roamed free and humanity suffered greatly for it. The Demon of Carnage mercilessly cuts through villagers and armies. The Demon of Corruption rots the land. The Serene Empire and the Witch Lords race towards war, and the only people who are able to stop the destruction of the world may be Ryx and her allies. As a side character, there is a character who appears as a cat throughout this series.
Whisper is the most interesting character in that he tries to be neutral in his dealings with the rest of the Demons even though he is the embodiment of Death. While this is classified as adult, it certainly does have some YA crossover in tone and character maturity. The challenge Ryx and her allies has is how do you defeat immortal extra-dimensional non-corporeal beings of extraordinary power and extraordinary malice, who will immediately jump to a new host if their present one is killed?
And, how to you deal with one of your own who has been hosting a Demon for years without their knowledge until recent events were revealed? One of my questions, and I do hope someone reads this and can fill me in; Is Lady Amalia Cornaro the same character from the authors Swords and Fire series? Ryx is a character who isn't afraid to get her hands dirty. I found it interesting that there was a brief crossover which is where Ryx meets Lady Cornaro. As I said, I'd like to know if this was the mother, or the daughter?
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