“Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay.”
SPOILER ALERT!
After the seemingly desperate ending of Siege and Storm readers who caught on early were left on tenterhooks for quite a time waiting for Ruin and Rising, eager to see just how ruined the Sun Summoner is after her battle with the Darkling. The Apparat has saved her but will Santka Alina ever be able to live up to her name, and is she about to become a martyr for someone else’s cause, a puppet in someone else’s game?
The fast and furious nature of the first two books continues into Ruin and Rising as Alina, Mal and the other surviving army attempt to piece together what happened at the Little Palace, what has changed and what lurks in the curling shadows.