

I nodded in agreement and scribbled, Adopt, don’t shop. “I KNOW DOGS WHO CAN FIGHT BETTER THAN YOU!” We have more information on her lineage, but we still don’t know much about her powers (and she is very powerful), or her “beast” that sometimes overwhelms her and takes over.

What I am even more curious about now is Aran’s mysterious powers.

The drug used to push through the emotional pain, the depressive state and suicidal thoughts… It was dark, but at the same time, it allowed the author to show Aran’s resiliency and determination to push through and not let herself be beaten by her dead mother.

It was pushed to the extreme a few times, but that’s one of the reasons I love this series so much, it’s just so intense and almost silly at times, while also being very dark and angsty!Īran suffered a lot in the previous books of the series, and we can see the trauma even more clearly in this book. I always liked the “girl hiding as a boy” trope, and I liked how Aran had to pretend to be a macho dude, but we could see through her thoughts how annoyed and disgusted she really was with the jerk recruits. The key to acting like you had a dick was being a dick. With a few more slaps to the face, I channeled toxic masculinity. As if surviving the ruthless pace and daily torture Lothaire sets is not enough, Aran also needs to survive the 3 Kings of the Academy who are not happy at all to have a scrawny fae boy join their elite assassin’s training program. She is part of the Academy now, and she can either survive the training or die trying. While Aran has no desire to enroll in the Academy, she is not given a choice after Lothaire tastes her power. Aran is taken by Lothaire to attend the Elite Academy to train and become the best of the best, to serve the High Court. This book picks up right where Psycho Beasts ended. This academy is built on three tenets.” He paused as if he was about to impart some great wisdom, but when he spoke, his voice dripped with an edge of sarcasm. ❗️❗️I recommend reading Sadie’s trilogy first as there are many references to events that happened in those books ❗️❗️Trigger warnings: mentions of death, gore, torture, bullying, depression, drug use, suicidal thoughts, past child abuse, and abuse in general I was provided an e-copy of the book by the author in exchange for an honest review.
