Wicked Ascending by Sarah Piper

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

A child conceived ’neath moon so bright…
 

When it comes to the cryptic Moon Blessed prophecy, our enemies have been fighting over its meaning—and its dark magic—for millennia.

Born of the union of darkness and light… 

But through all their bitter skirmishes, there’s one teeny little detail the vile beasts keep forgetting:

The Moon Blessed witch herself.

Blessed is the babe who inherits the crown… 

And after everything I’ve been through? This witch is done being forgotten. Done being manipulated. Done letting everyone else decide my fate.

Blessed is the blood that brings the world down… 

It’s time to write my own destiny.

Time to show our enemies just how hard a dark-fae witch and four cursed gargoyles will fight to protect the only thing more powerful than all the prophecies in the realms…

Love.

Wicked Ascending

Great wrap-up!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💚🖤💙❤️💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏🌍
Character development: 😠😚😁☺️😘
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Westlyn – she once thought she was a witch without any magic, she was promised to marry a man from a powerful mage family. Though when she found out he was a demon, everything in her life changed and she was saved by four gargoyles who have since helped her find out more about herself and the plot to use her to change the world.

The Heroes: Jude, Augustine, Rook, Drae – four men who were cursed by the dark fae king to become gargoyles, encased in stone during the day and using glamour by night to appear as human. They have been seeking to end their curse, and that of their brethren who are trapped in stone all the time. Though ending the curse may also be the end of them.

The Story: The past three books have been in a pretty standard format for a four book series. The first book was the introduction to the characters and the main conflict (the curse, and Westlyn’s wedding), The second book was building the relationship between the main characters and finding information regarding the main conflict, the third book started answering some of the questions that came from the first two books, and the fourth would be resolution and HEA.

I went into this hoping that resolution wouldn’t come quickly and there would be a lot of things going on in this story. I do hate it when the main conflict is resolved too soon, and the last half of the book is all sunshine and roses. I was happy to find out that though it looked like the final conflict between all the villains and our main characters was happening at the beginning of the book, it turned into more of a journey and got even more interesting than I expected.

This book was told in multiple points of view via dual narration, and was narrated by Vanessa Edwin, Shane East, Aaron Shedlock, and Aiden Snow. They all did a tremendous job with the narration, and I wouldn’t mind revisiting this series a few years down the line again. I just love Shane East and Aiden Snow and the other two were fantastic as well.

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