The Fate of the Tearling

A Novel

By: Erika Johansen

Narrated by: Polly Lee

The thrilling conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Tearling trilogy.

In less than a year, Kelsea Glynn has transformed from a gawky teenager into a powerful monarch. As she has come into her own as the Queen of the Tearling, the headstrong, visionary leader has also transformed her realm. In her quest to end corruption and restore justice, she has made many enemies—including the evil Red Queen, her fiercest rival, who has set her armies against the Tear.

To protect her people from a devastating invasion, Kelsea did the unthinkable—she gave herself and her magical sapphires to her enemy—and named the Mace, the trusted head of her personal guards, regent in her place. But the Mace will not rest until he and his men rescue their sovereign, imprisoned in Mortmesne.

Now, as the suspenseful endgame begins, the fate of Queen Kelsea—and the Tearling itself—will finally be revealed.

Why change narrators???????

The first book, narrated by Katherine Kellgren was SO well done! I hate that they changed the narrator for each book. Kellgren was integral in creating the world that made me want to continue listening to this series on Audible as opposed to buying the books and reading them myself. In fact, I did buy the second instalment to read it myself because I didn't want to wreck the picture that she created with the voices she used and the way she read it. I only bought this one on audible because of lack of time to sit down and read. Really really unfortunate that they had to go and do that. That's not to say that it's performance is bad. It's just really annoying that it changed with every book when the first was so so amazing.

The End

I understand the end, but I wasn't crazy about it. I'm not really sure you are supposed to be though.

Meaningful Parallels to Today

The book was great, with meaningful topics that extend into today's world. The only thing that was slightly off was the male voices in the performance (it made me laugh). The book however was thought provoking. A great book if you like anti-utopian literature with character development and fantasy elements.

the second worst literary heroine...

...I've ever had the misfortune to read. twilight's being the first.

i really enjoyed the first two books. all i can say about the third is it feels like the author tried to tell a story beyond her publicist's deadline, copped out, trash every character she'd carefully built through the first two books, and shoved out a canned deus ex machina to force a happy ending. i could have believed it all better if humanity had failed, everyone died, and the promise land of redemption fell as all humanity must fall, to our own petty self involvements.

the real crime though is the tear heir. how any individual who is supposedly so versed in fiction and learned while actually living in a world full of magics can be that freaking blind to the function of her own birthright is so unbelievable as to constantly break the story immersion every time she professes confusion or not knowing what's going on... which is quite literally every single time she pops up in book three. Gutenberg save me from trite literary tropes!

I’m crushed it’s over

I have not been this into a book series since the Harry Potter series and now that it’s over I don’t know how I’ll find a new book to read. The thought that went into this story is unlike any other. It’s rare for the third book of a series to be just as good if not better than the first of the series. I absolutely loved everything about this.