Review: Bright Raven Skies (Sweet Black Waves #3)

Bright Raven Skies (Sweet Black Waves #3)
By Kristina Perez

Published By: Blackstone Publishing
Publication Date: August 25, 2020
Date Read: August 2, 2023
Genre: YA – Fantasy
Source: Bought
Format: Hardback
Pages: 464

From Goodreads:
Bright Raven Skies is the thrilling conclusion to the lush and heart-wrenching romantic fantasy trilogy about ancient magic, warring families, and star-crossed lovers by Kristina Pérez.

To save the kingdom, Branwen embraced the darkest aspects of her magic. But she may have lost herself––and the two people she loves most.

Tristan and Eseult are missing. As Branwen searches for them, she must hide the truth surrounding their disappearance from both the king and her lover. Above all, she must find the Queen and her Champion first.

New and old enemies circle Branwen, clamoring for power and revenge, and threatening to destroy the fragile peace that she has sacrificed everything to secure.

Bright Raven Skies has been sat on my shelf for such a long time. I read the first two books in this trilogy as they came out around 3-4 years ago. I loved them both, so can’t really explain why I didn’t dive into this one as soon as it was released. I finally picked it up as part of my Catch Up On Series Challenge in 2023, and I am so glad to have finally finished this series. However, having said that, this was definitely my least favourite book of the trilogy.

Bright Raven Skies for me, was a super slow paced book. I can’t lie, I struggled through a lot of it. There were times I was tempted to try and read the audiobook of it, as I am much more patient with audiobooks than when I am reading physically, but I did push through. Considering this was the book where everything comes to a ‘head’ and the war is going on, I was just losing interest a little bit. Maybe this is because I had left 3 years between reading the last book and this one, I had just lost my love and excitement for it, but it was a bit of a struggle for me.

I did end up really enjoying it, and I do feel like this is a good ending of the series. It was a difficult one for me, as I felt sometimes like the author had wrote herself into a corner, and some of the more dramatic events for some characters happened just to get her out of it. Like, I didn’t feel like some of the events were necessary. Overall, I did enjoy the book, but it’s probably not one that I am going to re-read in the future. If you’re a fan of fantasy retellings, definitely give this one a go. It was a fun ride but I have definitely read better series endings.

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