House of Embers

Royal Houses, Book 5

By: K.A. Linde

Narrated by: Amy McFadden

USA Today bestselling author K. A. Linde returns with House of Embers, the finale to the Royal Houses series that Booktok called "Fourth Wing meets Throne of Glass."

Kerrigan Argon fell home from the land of the gods with nothing but her mate and her mother's bangle.

Now she has to save the world.

Half-Fae and humans are relegated to third class citizens. They're disappearing en masse. And the Red Masks—a terrorist organization now running the dragon Society—are behind it all.

Only Kerrigan can stop them.

She has to light the ember to forge a revolution.

©2025 K.A. Linde (P)2025 Tantor Media

series is entertaining and full of twists

my one complaint is the performer completely changed the accents of some of the characters in book 5.

Amazing

I loved the story the action the fighting the love stories within winter and Dozen Ford and Kerrigan and Clover and her two loves. The Justice that they finally hit at the end .

Finally

I devoured this series earlier this year and was a little disappointed that the last book was put off a few times. I’m not a patient person and after the cliffhanger of book four I needed the final book. With all that said this book was a great conclusion that tied up loose ends and gave Kerrigan and Ford the HEA they both deserved.

Amy McFadden did a good job voicing this last book. She brought energy and lifer the characters. My only complaint and I’m not sure if it was because of the long space in between books but some of the accents weren’t the same as in the other books. But it didn’t make that big of a difference. It was still enjoyable.

This was an emotional journey fille with heartbreak, triumph and love. I’m sad this series is now done but it was a ride I’d take again.

A meh conclusion

I was struggling to finish this. It took me A LOT longer than any of the other books that is for sure

Disappointing

I so excited to finally read the final book in the series. It felt like this book was thrown it together. It was also hard to finish but I wanted to see if it got better by the ending and it did not. I was expecting the same excitement and anticipation from the previous books that hooked me and this one did not. If only we could get a 6th book to make up for this one.