Plus, let's be real, I loved me some Noc. I loved the mix of the heroine being the one from the 'other' world and the hero being the modern one as well.

I don't want to give you too many details and ruin it for you, but let's just say I appreciated the slight reversal Kristen took with the last book in the series. I certainly enjoyed the flip side of the switch here. This was as different as it gets and that's not necessarily a bad thing. If you're expecting a book much like the rest of the Fantasyland series, don't.

Everything was right in the world and most questions answered. After the culmination of events at the end of Broken Dove, I also wondered where the story had left to go. While she wasn't quite a villain, she wasn't exactly a nice person and she certainly wasn't someone you'd root for in the previous books either. Considering the woman has sharpened her claws on plenty of previous heroines, I had to wonder how KA could redeem someone like her. I have to admit I was nervous reading a book with Franka as the heroine. Yes, there's a new couple in each book, but it just wouldn't be the same experience to read them as standalones. You need the entire backstory and it's one that develops with each story arc and later carries over into the next. This is not a series I recommend reading out of order. After all, it's the series that brought me The Golden Dynasty, only my top favorite KA book of ALL time. Midnight Soul marks the conclusion of one of my favorite Kristen Ashley series. What a bittersweet book this was for me to read. It was not a wonder I'd inherited the blackness. But there was a reason I carried a midnight soul, for the evil contained in both my parents set their souls to cinders years ago.

Fantastical by Kristen Ashley