
To be clear, there’s a lot of great character work here. The Bronzed Beasts is a finale that relies on your love of the characters to keep with the book and the trail of MacGuffins leading to the final showdown. With godhood up for grabs, Séverin hopes to prove that he only wants power in order to help his friends – but some bridges, once broken, can’t be mended. Laila, Enrique, Hypnos and Zofia embark on their own quest to find the hidden temple, hoping to beat the Fallen House there and stop anyone – including Séverin – from using it. But after revelations came forth about how Séverin manipulated the group so they’d support his hunt for the Divine Lyre, his allies from L’Eden are no longer so quick to trust his plans. Séverin has a plan to stop Ruslan, one he carefully laid out in a message to his friends when he left them. After seemingly betraying his friends at the Silver Palace, Séverin has joined Ruslan and the Fallen House in Venice to find the entrance to the one temple where Séverin can play the Divine Lyre and wield its powers without damaging the art of Forging. OVERVIEW/ANALYSIS: The race to godhood is on. It is available in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook formats. It is told in third person from multiple POVs, including Séverin, Laila, Zofia, and Enrique. It is 400 pages split over 41 chapters, a prologue, and an epilogue.



Meanwhile, Séverin must balance the deranged whims of the Patriarch of the Fallen House and discover the location of a temple beneath a plague island where the Divine Lyre can be played, and all that he desires will come to pass. Armed with only a handful of hints, Enrique, Laila, Hypnos and Zofia must find their way through the snarled, haunted waterways of Venice, Italy, to locate Séverin. After Séverin's seeming betrayal, the crew is fractured. Will divinity be their demise? Returning to the dark and decadent world of her instant New York Times bestseller, The Gilded Wolves, Roshani Chokshi dazzles us with the trilogy's final, riveting tale as full of danger as ever in The Bronzed Beasts.
