Format: Kindle, 314 pages
Release Date: May 25, 2020
Publisher: Starfall Press LLC
Source: Kindle Unlimited
Genre: Young Adult / SyFy
My name is Maia Graystone: soldier, commander of the rebel army . . . and the Emperor’s worst nightmare.
After going from scorned traitor to leader of the rebel army overnight, I’m now the most powerful girl in the empire.
But power always comes with a price.
My mother questions my position at every turn, my enemies wait for the right moment to strike, and the burden of leadership threatens my relationship with Riser.
When the Emperor kidnaps someone I love, I’m faced with the impossible—sneak onto Hyperion, his highly-guarded palace in the sky.
I’ve survived the Shadow Trials. I’ve survived the violent Blood Courts. But surviving this final mission means deciding once and for all who to trust—the golden prince from my past or the dark soldier from my future.
With Pandora’s wrath only days away, I’ll enter one final twisted game of treachery, secrets, and deceit.
Winner takes all . . . let the games begin.
Shadow
Ruin
is the third and final installment in author Audrey Grey's Shadow Fall
Trilogy. The story begins right where it left off in Shadow
Rise. The fate of the Earth depends on the successful infiltration of the
castle on Emerald Island, locating and activating the Mercurian to deal with
the Pandora asteroid about to destroy the planet, and taking out the Emperor.
Maia Graystone has done some impossible things over the course of this series.
She's survived 7 years in the Pit after being caught trying to feed her brother
Max.
She survived the
Shadow Trials after having had a complete makeover by a former guard of the families
to become someone entirely new. She survived the Blood Courts against her once
lover Riser and her alleged ally Nicolai. She's put together a large army of the
willing including Prince Caspian and her own brother Max. With her mother
alongside, a mother who turned her back on her family and became an ally of the
Emperor, a mother who created she Shadow Trial, who now claims it was all part
of a larger plan that involves Maia and Max having pieces of a puzzle that will
lead to finding the Mercurian that her own father developed to save the world
from Pandora.
What's interesting
about this story is that sleepers are waking up and they are a major part of
Maia's army. Sleepers include people from all walks of life including Bronze
and Silver, and people who are weak and hungry. The bad thing is that half the
people are starving and weak and really can't be relied on to face off against
Nicolai's people, the Archduchess, or the Emperor for that matter. After Nicolai
throws a wrench in her plans, as always, and the psychopathic Archduchess
kidnaps Max, Maia is forced to choose between finding the Mercurian so she can
save the planet or saving her brother.
The
story moves to space station Hyperion, a floating city of wonder where Maia,
posed as Delphine, is expected to marry Prince Caspian. Things quickly spiral
into dangerous territory and it's only a matter of time before choices and
decisions will need to be made. For some, the revolving door between Maia,
Caspian and Riser is considered a love triangle. But not really. Maia once
loved the boy Caspian, but it is the man, Riser, who holds her heart even after
all the bad things that he's done for her. Would I have preferred Maia with
Caspian? Perhaps. Caspian never once betrayed Maia. Oh, sure, he blamed her for
his sister’s death but that was due to being emotionally distraught. The ending
is part violent, part emotional, and part heart breaking. It's a good ending.
There's not much I would change including the high body count.
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