Having the ARC on hand was such a temptation, but I never read ARCs until about a month before publication and waiting for this was just the worst – but totally worth it. I’ve been on tenterhooks, just waiting to read this book ever since I finished Wicked Saints. A darker and more dangerous force is taking over, and they are now merely pawns in the game. The war between Tranavia and Kalyazin still rages, but they are the main players anymore. Nadya is still at the Tranavian court, posing as a minor noble – but the deception is coming apart and if it is revealed that she is in fact a Kalyazin cleric, her life will be in danger. Serefin is now king, but the suspicious circumstances behind his ascension to the throne has done him no favours with the nobility and his young reign is already under threat – and that’s not even considering the new voice in his head, possibly a God’s. Since the end of Wicked Saints, when the plot to kill the King of Tranavia went awry, Malachiasz has retreated to the Salt Mines in his new monstrous form following his failed attempt to become a god. “What happens when a monster tries to become a god?” Thank you to the publisher, Wednesday Books, and Edelweiss for providing me with an eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. Duncan paints a Gothic, icy world where shadows whisper, and no one is who they seem, with a shocking ending that will leave you breathless. In her dramatic follow-up to Wicked Saints, the first book in her Something Dark and Holy trilogy, Emily A. The voices that Serefin hears in the darkness, the ones that Nadya believes are her gods, the ones that Malachiasz is desperate to meet-those voices want a stake in the world, and they refuse to stay quiet any longer. They’re pieces on a board, being orchestrated by someone… or something. Malachiasz is at war with who–and what–he’s become.Īs their group is continually torn apart, the girl, the prince, and the monster find their fates irrevocably intertwined. Serefin is fighting off a voice in his head that doesn’t belong to him. Synopsis: Nadya doesn’t trust her magic anymore. Published: April 7th, 2020 (Wednesday Books)

Ruthless gods