You CANNOT be recommended this book. It's just a book you have to pick up at some point when you're ready. 😎No amount of me telling you how good it is should be the reason you pick it up, but just know, that once you do and you pass the confusion and overwhelming stages of book 1... This series will have you in a CHOKEHOLD, and abso-fucking-lutely GAGGING, like the whores we all are, ready to sacrifice your soul and your first born child for even a crumb of air, that only this series can pr...

Rune and Brand have changed my brain chemistry I’m literally unwell. Platonic soulmate excellenceKd Edwards’ pen was on fire when he wrote: ““You must not consider me so fragile. I can handle such truths. For instance, I know that I will never be the love of your life.” I froze. Turned. Stared at him. He smiled at me, a little sadly. “What you share with Brand? I could spend a lifetime chasing it, and it will always be decades out of my reach.”IM SHOOK AND SHAKENI probably won’t write a full rev...

**** 3.5 stars ****I liked this more than the first book, as I'd hoped. The characters are what brought me back to give the series a second chance, and they're what will keep me reading, despite how the problematic worldbuilding sometimes makes me want to tear my hair out.When I say the characters, I really mean Rune and Brand. The other characters, I can take or leave. And there were waaaaaay too many children in this book for my taste. But Rune, the first person narrator, is a trip. And Brand ...

HOLY SHIT THIS WAS AMAZING!!!!

I LOVED IT! PLRGMJTNSSZFWKOFLFODJDJFKMF!!! I loved them all, Rune, Brand, Addam, Max & Quinn and OMG, there were places in this book where the hair on my arms was literally standing straight up!

WHEN'S THE NEXT BOOK????

Bumping it up to 5 stars because I'm still obsessed and I need the third book like, yesterday. Those characters are everything!4,5 stars.I can't believe that 10 days ago, I hadn't ever heard of this series and now I'm screaming in a pillow because I have to wait to meet up with those characters again!I can see myself back then (yes, it sounds dramatic when speaking of 10-days-ago), at the beginning of a reading slump, browsing through my Kindle that had around 20 new and unread books and being s...

WOW!!!! I could probably go on and on about 'The Last Sun' and 'The Hanged Man' for quite a while that's how much I loved and enjoyed these books. These books have gotten this series off to one hella' good start. They're filled with snark, humor, action and so many awesome characters...Rune and Brand are fabulous but there are so many other secondary characters that I absolutely loved. While I have my favorites when it comes to narrators, I'm also not adverse to discovering new to me narrators a...

Reread review April 2022:Holy crap, has it really been 2.5 years since this came out? Where has the time gone? 🙈 (I guess Covid, insurrections, rampant inflation and war in Ukraine have kept us all distracted. I don't need these many distractions, Life. Just saying.) ☹️Really glad I got to reread these before book 3 comes out next month. I'm getting more and more worried about this big secret Rune is hiding, even from Brand. Or maybe especially from Brand. 😬 And I still don't trust The Tower. ...

ARC received in exchange for an honest review. Additionally, this review includes no spoilers for The Last Sun.After finishing, I had precisely one word: Wow. That's it. That's the review. Pack up, go home, we're done.More seriously, if the first book was pretty good, this one makes me want to read everything the author puts out. The pacing is good, but the characters are perfect and it gave me all of the feels. It's a perfect blend of action-y and character-focused and offers something for just...

The cover the Hanged Man shows Rune dangling- hanging- upside-down. But if you look at it another way it could almost be Rune reflected in still water, which is fitting because in many ways this book is the inverse reflection of the one that came before it. Whereas the Last Sun was a mostly light read punctured by occasional darkness, Hanged Man is an extremely dark book with only brief moments of lightness to offer relief. Brand, noting that shit must be real now because the Tower is wearing sh...

Hey K.D? Sequel Syndrome just called. It wants you to send some pillows and blankets to the titanium coffin you just buried it in.Clearly The Hanged Man is the product of a mortal man making deals with a high demon, because it has no business--none whatsoever--being this damn good. Disgusting, paradoxical levels of good.I mean, we've seen New Atlantis before, we know these characters, so the honeymoon glow should have worn off at least a little, because that's how sequels tend to go. The world s...