Early Review: The Eternal Ones (Deathless #3)

The Eternal Ones (Deathless #3)
By Namina Forna

Published By: Usborne Publishing
Publication Date: February 13, 2024
Date Read: January 24, 2024
Genre: YA – Fantasy
Source: eARC from Netgalley
Format: E-Book
Pages: 480

From Goodreads:
The dazzling finale to the groundbreaking, New York Times bestselling Gilded Ones series. One girl holds the power to defeat the gods—but can she become one?

Mere weeks after confronting the Gilded Ones—the false beings she once believed to be her family—Deka is on the hunt. In order to kill the gods, whose ravenous competition for power is bleeding Otera dry, she must uncover the source of her divinity. But with her mortal body on the verge of ruin, Deka is running out of time—to save herself and an empire that’s tearing itself apart at its seams.

When Deka’s search leads her and her friends to the edge of the world as they know it, they discover an astonishing new realm, one which holds the key to Deka’s past. Yet it also illuminates a devastating decision she must soon make…

Choose to be reborn as a god, losing everyone she loves in the process. Or bring about the end of the world.

The Deathless Series fast became a favourite YA Fantasy series of mine when I read book 1 a few years ago. I absolutely loved this rich fantasy world full of lies and deception and I absolutely zoomed through the first two books. Due to this, there were no words for how excited I was to get an ARC of the final book in this series. I was so excited to dive in and to see how it all ended for Deka and her friends. Honestly, I was a little bit disappointed in this one. I don’t know whether it was because of the mood I was in at the time of reading, but I found the pacing of this one really slow and I kept losing interest.

I am so sad that I didn’t love this one just as much as the first two books. I completely accept that there were lots of things to put into place before we could have the big fight but honestly, it took far too long to get there for me. We have really been building up to this big war between Deka and the Gilded Ones for three books and I was so excited to see this big epic battle in this book. The fact that it still hadn’t started by the time I got 70% through this book was a big disappointment to me. We took far too long building up to it and it felt really anticlimactic to me.

I did really enjoy the characters in this series. One of my favourite parts of this series is the abundance of fantastic characters. I loved each and every one of them and to see them get their ending was so satisfying. I am really glad I picked up The Eternal Ones and this does still remain a great series and one I would definitely re-read. At the time of reading this book, I had been reading a lot of fantasy books so a part of me feels like maybe I was just in the wrong frame of mind to read it, and feeling a little book slumpy. I will probably re-read this one at a different time to see if my feelings change towards it in the future, but as of now, I was a little bit disappointed.

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