Goldfinch (The Plated Prisoner, #6)

by Raven Kennedy

But I couldn’t allow him to follow me, and no amount of explaining would’ve deterred him. He wouldn’t listen to me if I asked him to stay behind. This is the only way, and this is my only chance. The fae told me, don’t waste your chance, so I won’t. Forgive me, Dommik.

I'm sorry, WHAT???

Unless I stop them.

What do you think you can do about it then?

We both look down at the same time. Both see the sword stabbed clean through his chest.

NOOO

I just want to save Orea. If I die to achieve that goal, so be it.

Please don't

Then, the bridge is no more. And neither… are we.

Although this was a little sad, I'm glad the Malina chapters are done with.

There is no lead-up. I have no idea what’s about to happen. One of them just moves forward, and I don’t notice the ax until it’s buried in my dragon’s chest.

The dragon's only point was to be killed?

I snarl like a rabid animal as my father crouches next to Auren. When his hand wraps around her throat, my dragon and I rage.

Please Auren, send some rot through the bastards veins

I went through the river in the void, and I was reborn.

The fuck?

Because I don’t want to fall anymore. I have been falling my entire life. So this time, I don’t.

She's going to sprout wings isn't she?

They’re not streaming uselessly. No, they come together. Forming into something else. Forming into wings.

CALLED IT

The mourning stretches inside of me, emanating from the place where the dragon slept, right at the core of my healed selves. The spot now lies empty.

I still don't understand the point of adding the dragon to the story.

And Brennur, the only fae who had the power to transport between realms is gone too.

He wasn't the ONLY fae right? Fairy rings were rare, not extinct.

Fifth and Sixth have fallen, and with Malina and the new King Fulke gone, these kingdoms need leadership.”

I can't for the life of me remember what happened to the new Fulke? :')

And I’ll never know what happened to Emonie either. We’re just…cut off.”

How does she even know Emonie is in Orea?

Wick sent a large group of Vulmin to deal with the dead soldiers and Cull’s rotting corpse…and also Slade’s dragon.

He didn't even try to take it back in, revive it somehow, nothing. That dragon is just uselessly rotting under that net.

Ever since Ryatt had to come to terms with the fact that Brennur was dead, that there were no other fae with the ability to create fairy rings in another realm, he’s been…struggling. He tries to hide it, but I can see how uncomfortable he is, and I know Slade notices more than I do. Mostly, Ryatt has just kept to himself, inside the house he’s sharing with Lu and Digby.

Ryatt deserves a better ending than this, where is Emonie?