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Destroy the Day was an excellent ending to the trilogy. The character relationships were so well done. Tessa is stranded on Ostriary grieving the death of Prince Corrick with the guardsman, Rocco, by her side. I love that he became more than just a “redshirt” character. Prince Corrick is left a captive with his hated enemy, Lochlan, as his only companion. Their forced proximity finally gets these two hard-headed characters to find the strengths of the other person and dare I say respect and loyalty! King Harristan must become open and trust others besides his brother. Through Quint, he finally admits to his feelings and the possibility of love. I also love the exploration into his loyal guard's lives making them more than wallpaper in the story.
King Harristan and Quint make the ultimate sacrifice to save the country. The author makes it a stunning scene but since she did the same thing in each book, I always held a grain of disbelief and waited to see if she would really leave it there with the characters. I normally am very impatient with love interests being separated and find the story slow waiting for them to finally rejoin each other. Yet, once again the relationship building between our main characters to the other characters was so engaging that I didn’t mind their separation and saw the necessity of it for the resolution to happen as it did.
Overall, this was an engaging sequel and very well-done ending to the series. I listened to the story as an audiobook and the narrators did an excellent job bringing the story to life.