The third and final installment in the all consuming Lone City Trilogy by Amy Ewing will leave fans of the series breathless, surprised and delighted.
A short novel packed full of twists and turns The Black Key will not disappoint. Ewing's carefully crafted, dark, world is bought to life by it's cast of beautifully rendered characters who readers will swiftly grow to adore and, in this final installment, cheer on as they take their futures into their own hands.
From the blurb;
'Fighting for freedom.
'Torn between conflicting loyalties.
'Desperate to save her sister.
'Violet and the Society of the Black Key are launching an attack on the royalty, and Violet has a crucial role to play. She must lead the surrogates as they infiltrate the Auction and change the Lone City forever.
'But Violet's sister, Hazel, is imprisoned in the palace of the Lake. Should Violet abandon her cause and return to the Jewel in order to save her sister?'
As Violet struggles to balance the greater cause against the present threat to her family we run along at her side carried by Amy Ewing's careful crafting of the stories plot and brilliant deceptions whose revelations bring masterful surprises to the story throughout.
While the complex nature of the Black Key's crescendo story-line mixed against it's fast paced writing, can cause the novel in places to jar the reader, the overall impact of this novel is a positive conclusion to this fantastic debut series that will leave readers just discovering Ewing excited for everything else she has to bring to the literary world.
We Give The Black Key Four Stars
ISBN - 978-1-4063-4759-3 Cover Price - £7.99 eBook available First published in 2016 by Walker Books Ltd