A fitting end for a great story !!

I have every book of this trilogy swallowed, mainly because of the unusual heroine Lucero-Elisa. She's so personable, so humorous and so incredibly clever (no, not besserwisserisch wise, but surprising and amazing !!) Rae Carson has to be a real genius, you look at how they operate their main character and what they can they say. In addition to the exciting story that is the real charm of this story: The other characters are very consistent in their behavior.

This book (Volume 3) consistently and credibly continue Lucero-Elisa's development of an immature teenager in a strong and responsible monarch. She still fights (except against their real enemies) against their little weaknesses, thereby acting to me very human and likeable. When it really matters, Elisa always does the right thing. And she always thinks much further than I do. Your actual strengths lie less in the magic, but rather in their psychological skills and their strategic thinking (not for nothing that they didnt read this book on warfare on her father's farm!). Elisa's decisions are often unexpected, even unpleasant, but always brilliant logic. Once it has taken them a every time it becomes immediately clear why they are the only correct ones. I was impressed and captivated them that they always so much smarter acted as if I had done it probably.

As for the other characters of the book, was the most exciting figure to me from the outset Storm by far. After the second band I had very much hoped that the bitchy, opaque Invierno would still play a major role in the third band, and I was not disappointed.

The hardest thing about an exciting story is the end. At the moment of highest need, the heroine must find a surprising but credible way, most just on the basis of their own abilities. How often will you as disappointed if the author is not sunken! Or just something completely absurd. Or did he only found a solution that does not correspond to the heroine.
Not so here. Rae Carson has exceeded all my expectations. There is a furious showdown, and the solution was a complete surprise to me and is all the more so awesome, because it is so logical and fits so completely to Elisa.

I hope that Rae Carson still gives us a lot of stories of this caliber!
(If you look at it exactly the end of "The Bitter Kingdom" has indeed so endless possibilities ...)