Everything is just dark, dark, dark, and reading it for too long, especially for those of us who struggle with mental health issues, is intensely depressing. There are moments of levity, but no light or hope anywhere. Even though I loved this book, it is a hard world to inhabit for long periods of time. Over the course of several months, I picked it up, read a hundred pages, and put it down again to read something else. And yet, Nadya still doesn’t know if they are really gods at all, or if they are just powerful monsters who’ve been passing themselves off as gods, although as the book goes on, it becomes more clear that it’s probably the later.Ĭonfession time: I had a hard time getting through this book. War still rages across Kalayzin and Tranavia, but the greater concern is whatever the gods are planning.
He’s recently begun hearing voices in his head, which he tries desperately to ignore, and every night he drinks himself into oblivion to chase the nightmares away. His entire court has turned against him, due to the fact that he can’t explain his father’s death, and the only possible way to appease them is rescue one noble’s daughter from the lair of his greatest foe-the Black Vulture. The prince is now the king of Tranavia, following the untimely death of his father. Part of her even hopes that she can still save him. Although she knows he doesn’t deserve it, she misses him. She desperately devours religious texts, trying to understand why Malchiasz chose the path that he did. Left with nothing, she wanders around the Tranavian castle, lost and drifting. The girl is lost without her magic, without the gods’ guidance, shattered by the betrayal of the boy she loved. He continues to reach, becoming less and less human and more and more of a monster. The monster soared so close to divinity, but in the end, he still fell short.
This book plumbs the depths of the human soul, and when you resurface, you will not be the same. Duncan is just as heartbreaking as its predecessor. Utterly wretched, brutal, and entirely unholy, Ruthless Gods by Emily A.
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