Review: The Last Legacy (Fable #3)

The Last Legacy (Fable #3)
By Adrienne Young

Published By: Titan Books
Publication Date: January 29, 2022
Date Read: January 10, 2022
Genre: YA – Fantasy
Source: eARC from Titan Books and Netgalley
Format: E-Book
Pages: 368

From Goodreads:
New York Times bestselling author Adrienne Young returns with The Last Legacy, a captivating standalone about family and blood ties, reinventing yourself, and controlling your own destiny.

When a letter from her uncle Henrik arrives on Bryn Roth’s eighteenth birthday, summoning her back to Bastian, Bryn is eager to prove herself and finally take her place in her long-lost family.

Henrik has plans for Bryn, but she must win everyone’s trust if she wants to hold any power in the delicate architecture of the family. It doesn’t take long for her to see that the Roths are entangled in shadows. Despite their growing influence in upscale Bastian, their hands are still in the kind of dirty business that got Bryn’s parents killed years ago. With a forbidden romance to contend with and dangerous work ahead, the cost of being accepted into the Roths may be more than Bryn can pay.

After falling head over heels in love with Fable and Namesake last year, I was so excited to see that there would be a companion novel to that series. The Last Legacy is not really a third book in the Fable series. The characters from Fable and Namesake are not in this book… however it is set after the events of that series, and it’s still in the same world. I am such a huge Adrienne Young fan that I couldn’t wait to dive in, and I was so excited to get an ARC from the UK publisher.

The Last Legacy follows Bryn, an 18-year-old girl who is summoned back to Bastian by her cutthroat family of gem merchants. She finds she needs to be just as brutal to find her place in this family. But as she realises there is more and more dangerous work afoot, she has to decide between her family and her heart.

I absolutely loved The Last Legacy. I found this one so intriguing. We had heard about the gem traders and merchants in Fable and Namesake, but we saw that from the outside in those books. Here the gem merchants are front and centre with all their dodgy dealings, and I loved seeing this side of it. I kind of missed the whole ‘pirate’ feel to it that we got in the first few books but I loved seeing a different side to the world and this series.

Bryn’s character growth in this book is incredible and was amazing to witness. She goes from meek girl, to brutal cutthroat to get her own way and I loved every single moment of it. I loved that she went from the girl she was expected to be to her essentially going ‘fuck it, I’m gonna do what I want’. I loved that attitude and it just made me love her all the more. Add in Ezra, the brutal and brooding hero of the book and I was sold. He was perfect and I fell head over heels for him from the moment he was mentioned. This book was fast paced and action packed and I seriously couldn’t put it down. I absolutely devoured it in a day or two. I just adore everything about this series.

Adrienne Young has absolutely become one of my all time favourite authors. I have read all but one of her books and loved them. And the one I haven’t is on my immediate TBR. She is just an incredibly writer that sucks you in right from the start and won’t let go of your heart till the very last word. I just adore her worlds and her characters and I can’t wait to see what she writes next. If you want an incredible adventure that will leave you shouting from the rooftops over how good it is then I urge you to read this series. While I did prefer Fable and Namesake (hello, pirates), this one was also just incredible.

“I’m making my own fate. If we stay, we stay together.”

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