Shadow Lands by Stacey Marie Brown Series: Savage Lands #6
Genres: Dystopian
Publication Date: May 31, 2022
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I no longer walked in the gray ... I had fallen into the darkness.
With Brexley on the run and Istvan rebuilding his power in the safety of Ivanenko’s territory, those who have escaped the prison are dealing with the bloody aftermath and trying to regain any hold they can on Budapest. But in Markos’s absence, Sonya makes a claim for the throne and takes control of the city.
When the rebel’s hideout is attacked, they are forced to flee the city they call home, heading East to destroy Istvan’s rise in Ukraine.
And locate Kovacs.
Warwick is not the only one after Brexley. Beasts, humans, and fae are hunting her to seize the one item that can save or destroy not just the country, but the world.
Brexley’s powers are growing, but she is finding even she can’t control the dangerous nectar because the more she advances her own powers, so does the nectar, containing too much magic for one person to handle.
In this final installment, Brexley, Warwick, Killian, Caden, and Scorpion fight for love, freedom, life, and their country.
Fire ignites, beasts kill, death rises . . . And every life is on the line.
Between life and death, deep in the shadows, there is The Grey...And The Wolf ready to obliterate the world for her.
This last book in the Savage Land series took me forever to finish. I had been looking so forward to this book but it missed the mark for me. Told in alternating POVs, we get Brexley, Warwick, Scorpian, Killian, and Caden’s take on what is happening leading up to the final stand against Istavan. Brexley had run off in an attempt to save all she loves, leaving the rest to figure out what their next move was. In the end, her running was for naught, as they all ended up together again and realized they needed to fight together. Did we need to have alternating POVs from all these characters to get that? In my opinion, no. Brexley and Warwick would have been ok. I’m not even sure why we needed Scorpian, Killian, or Caden’s narrative or to get such an in-depth view into their sudden matings within their little click. As everyone is in everyone else’s business, Warwick or Brexley could have shared what they were observing with these 3 without having this insight.
The ending of this book also left me hanging a bit and disappointed a bit. What was happening with HDF was resolved, I guess, but the other big player was in the wind at the end and with the epilogue we know there is going to be more in this world. I almost wish Savage Lands ended at 3 or 4 books and Ash’s story picks up in books 5 and 6. I’ll pick up Ash’s book, because I’m curious, but I’m hoping it doesn’t drag into another 5 or 6 book series.
Shannon
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