Tracy Deonn’s #1 New York Times bestselling Legendborn Cycle continues in the sensational third book about a dazzling contemporary fantasy world that blends Southern Black Girl Magic with secret societies and the legend of King Arthur!
Severed from the Legendborn. Oathbound to a monster.
Bree Matthews is alone. She exiled herself from the Legendborn Order, cut her ancestral connections, and turned away from the friends who can’t understand the impossible cost of her powers. This is the only way to keep herself—and those she loves—safe.
But Bree’s decision has come with a terrible price: an unbreakable bargain with the Shadow King himself, a shapeshifter who can move between humanity, the demon underworld, and the Legendborn secret society. In exchange for training to wield her unprecedented abilities, Bree has put her future in the Shadow King’s hands—and unwittingly bound herself to do his bidding as his new protégé.
Meanwhile, the other Scions must face war while their Round Table is fractured, leaderless, and missing its Kingsmage, as Selwyn has also disappeared. When Nick invokes an ancient law that requires the High Council of Regents to grant him an audience, the Order’s Merlins imprison him. No one knows what he will demand of the Regents…or what secrets he has kept hidden from the Table.
As a string of mysterious kidnappings escalates and Merlins are found dead, it becomes clear that no matter how hard Bree runs from who she is, the past will always find her.
Tina
26/03/2025
it’s amazing, but it’s long
Denise
10/03/2025
The world building and magic of this series remains fantastic and ever growing. Love that this books explored the demons of this world. There are so many interesting characters in these books, that I’m glad we could get to know better. However, I still have some issues with this book, which are basically an extension of the issues I had earlier in the series, but just extended extra long over this very long book. The pacing of this book, as with previous in the series, is just not for me. It is so tiring and long threaded. Everything is done with so much detail. Conversations are so long for no apparent reason. When I think about what happens in this book, I have no idea how it filled 650 pages because it wasn’t that much. I don’t think I could’ve gotten through this if I didn’t listen to the audiobook. Bree still has YA main character syndrome, which is just not my cup of tea. I’m glad we got other perspectives in this book. I especially enjoyed William’s perspectives. Definitely my highlight. Yet, there was disappointingly little about the side characters. Lark and William are my favourites and compared to the main characters, I was eating crumbs, which is so unfortunate. The romance aspect of this book was not interesting to me at all. It got very prominent in the second half of the book and just added bits I did not need. The story at its core, the side characters, the messages that are portrayed, and world building make this series very intriguing to me. Yet there were those previously mentioned issues that made this read more exhausting than it needed to be.
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