Mother of Death and Dawn (The War of Lost Hearts #3) by Carissa Broadbent

 

This was the most beautiful and heart wrenching final book in the series. Carissa Broadbent has quickly become one of my favorite authors with how well she creates strong and multidimensional characters.  “Victory was never free” is a theme we see throughout the series. 

We follow three different points of views from our main characters Max, Tissannah and Aefe. You feel so deeply for each of them as they fight mentally and physically. 

These morally grey characters who feel fractured by the hard lives that they have lived and the scars that show and the ones hidden from the world. We watch them mature, grow and sacrifice themselves as we travel through war torn countries. This book follows the politics, heartbreak and adrenaline pumping action of war with powers so great it shakes the world. 

A beautiful portrait of war and hope, hoping for a better world while having to kill to create it. Gut Wrenchingly spectacular till the end. We experience the reality of the aftereffects of war while still seeing an ending that lives up to these great characters.