Without giving away too many details, there was a scene where Kaden asked Lia if she still loved Rafe and when she confirms her feelings, Kaden acknowledges and then that’s it.

Though Kaden has his own ‘happily ever after’ which fit perfectly, I still felt like his feelings for Lia were left mostly unaddressed. While it wasn’t overly angst-y like some YA novels and though it was clear that Lia and Rafe were in love, the question of Kaden’s feelings were left unresolved to me. One of the things I loved most about this series was the love ‘triangle’. I felt like there was too much build up and not enough of a crescendo to justify the lengthy build up. I felt like there was so much build up and talk about what was going to happen when Lia finally met the Venda army in the field and what strategies were going to be deployed and then after 90% of the book, they FINALLY met on the field. The first thing that rubbed was it took too long for the battle to come and when it did, the battle itself went too fast. I felt really disappointed with parts of this one. On the whole, I love the series and the first book was so wonderful but this last installment really fell short for me. So this book was a hard one for me to review.

In this conclusion to the Remnant Chronicles trilogy, traitors must be rooted out, sacrifices must be made, and impossible odds must be overcome as the future of every kingdom hangs in the balance. While she struggles to reach Morrighan and warn them, she finds herself at cross-purposes with Rafe and suspicious of Kaden, who has hunted her down. With war on the horizon, Lia has no choice but to assume her role as First Daughter, as soldier-as leader. Lia has survived Venda-but so has a great evil bent on the destruction of Morrighan. I loved the first two books and was eager to see what the conclusion would be like since the last book left things really up in the air and ended on a climatic note. In all the craziness that comes with a baby and other reviews, this book kind of got buried in my to be read list and then one day I remembered that I had it and was super excited to start reading it. I had this book on pre-order for quite some time….it just so happened that it was released when I was in labor so I missed out on starting it right away.

The remnant chronicles book 3