Lady of Starfire

Lady of Darkness, Book 5

De: Melissa K. Roehrich

Narrado por: Laura Horowitz, Gregory Salinas

The lost are found.

Scarlett Sutara Aditya has finally learned the full cost of saving her world and correcting mistakes that are not hers.

The broken are remade.

It is a time when kings may fall, and queens may rise. When power is lost, and chaos is born. Making demands of her own, Scarlett will fight for her twin flame, her family and bring her realm together to defend what is theirs.

Fate is defied.

But Scarlett has always played games by her own rules. If new destinies are to be forged, does she truly understand that as the final moment arrives, it might just cost her everything?

Truth can be uncovered in the darkness, but some secrets can only be found among the stars.

©2023 Melissa K. Roehrich (P)2023 HarperCollins Publishers

Good

I was really entertained with this book. It was full of action in so many different places and with so many different characters. All the “side quests” were fun and kept me glued to the story. As I’ve said throughout this series, the side characters are the true gems of the story, I really liked Eliza’s and Talwyn’s POVs in this book.
I think the world building was too convoluted and unnecessarily confusing, even in this last book it kept expanding with yet more beings and levels of power (there’s chaos magic now?) I feel like the ultimate end goal of this whole adventure was unclear or kept changing. Scarlett is too overpowered. The using and draining of power works in convenient ways for the plot without much logic. There’s always a convenient spell that comes out of nowhere to save the day.
I enjoyed this book until the end. It dragged for too long and still managed to leave things unfinished. It felt anticlimactic and underwhelming. Some things were too rushed.
As a whole, this series is ok. You can see throughout the books the author’s evolution as a writer and I think there’s potential for her to become really good. I think the series would’ve been better as a trilogy, with the plot and world building more concise and focused.
*spoilers ahead*
The villains were so underwhelming in this book. They’re supposed to be smart, powerful, ancient beings who’ve been planing… whatever their goal was for centuries and they manage to do nothing right in this book and their killing was rushed and anticlimactic. They’re mostly absent and always outsmarted by Scarlett and co. I do enjoy (specially in a final book) when the heroes finally get their way and defeat the baddies in smart unexpected ways, but make it a little difficult, win some lose some, when they always win without any consequence or trouble, there’s no stakes and it’s uninteresting.