Book Review - Wrath Of The Storm by Jennifer A. Nielsen

   Okay, FIRST of all - I've been totally overwhelmed by your sweet comments on my blogoversary bash post! Y'all have even been linking to it on your own blogs? You guys are just the bestest, okay - it's official. *hugs and highfives for all*

   Alright, back to the reason for this post xD. I had made a firm decision not to read this series (book set in ancient Rome = not my thing). But then I found a eye-candy copy of the final book in the trilogy for a good price and ... eheh, needless to say, I bought it.

   And Wrath Of The Storm (the last book in the Mark Of The Thief trilogy) was AMAZING, I loved the entire series to death. How did I ever in a million years consider not reading it? #crimes

5 Stars

   Wonder of wonders, is that a five star rating I see?! Yes indeed, this is the first five star book I've reviewed! And Wrath Of The Storm deserved every single one of those beautiful stars. It was a perfect climax to the Mark Of The Thief Series, and I adored it to death.  

   - From The Back Cover -

A quest for freedom. The magic of the gods. A storm to destroy a world.

Trouble has a way of finding Nicolas Calva, and it’s not likely to leave him alone any time soon. With Caesar’s magic bulla, the Malice of Mars, and the possibility of a Jupiter Stone in play, all the powers of Rome are circling Nic. He’ll have to maneuver his way through scheming government officials and reawakened magical beasts to save the Empire. Can he manage to keep his friends and family safe, claim his own freedom once and for all, and rescue the Empire—before the magic gets the better of him?

With twists and turns on every page, critically acclaimed author Jennifer Nielsen weaves an epic, action-packed conclusion to her extraordinary Mark of the Thief trilogy.

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   - The characters. When it comes to the characters in Wrath Of The Storm - well, in the whole trilogy - Jennifer Nielson slayed. In The False Prince (another Nielson book/series that I highly enjoyed and recommend), I never could get myself to like a certain character by the name of Imogen, so I was a little unsure about how it would go with the Mark Of The Thief series? But I should not have worried! I absolutely loved all the characters that were supposed to be loved, and utterly hated all the characters that were supposed to be hated. It was lovely xD. And the main character is witty and epic and I just loved him, so the book gets extra epic-ness points.

   - The plot. I had to keep reading! I had to know how it would turn out! The stakes kept piling higher! I just couldn't stop! (literally - I read Wrath Of The Storm in a number of hours xD) The plot had the perfect pacing, and I LOVED it. It seemed almost impossible that anything was going to work out in Nic's favor, so I had to keep reading. There was no possible way on this good earth that I would have been able to stop! I adore the plot in this book. <3  

   - It was a wonderful climax. If it's a series, I'll ALWAYS be the pickiest about the last book. But I thought that Wrath Of The Storm was a wonderful climax for the series! (I mean, look at the cover. There is fire and lightening and explosions. Obviously this was a beautifully dramatic climax) Everything came together in this big, intense [will not say it because of spoilers, but it was epic], and I loved it. I was really hoping that the Mark Of The Thief trilogy would end well, and OH MY - it certainly did!     
 

   - ... did I dislike anything? *crickets* ... okay, so I feel like there should be SOMETHING for me to stick down in this section but NOPE (okay - so there was ONE smol thing, but it was at the end and it's a spoiler, so I shall refrain from mentioning it xD). The entire series was really clean, and I basically loved everything about it. And it was ESPECIALLY good because I went into it thinking I might dislike it, and then I ended up loving to death xD.

   [random aside: there was this fantasy book that I read when I was really young, and I COULD NOT remember the title of it for the life of me (and my goldfish memory will be the death of me, but I guess it was many years ago when I read that book?), and I really wanted to remember what it was, because I think it was among some of the first fantasy books I ever read. And as I was looking through other Jennifer Nielson books, it JUST SO HAPPENS that she was the one who wrote that book I was thinking of. I was very pleasantly surprised and will probably buy anything she writes xD]   

   But anyways - like I said, Mark Of The Thief is a very clean series, so I definitely recommend it! And Wrath Of The Storm is the first book that I've reviewed that has received five stars, so that should give you some extra incentive to start this trilogy xD. You won't regret it!  

~ Savannah Grace

have you read Wrath Of The Storm? 

what's your favorite Jennifer A. Nielson book?