The conclusion to the COURT OF FIVES trilogy, BURIED HEART was absolutely incredible...and completely exhausting. Elliot did an amazing job with these books. They're compelling and the characters are great, and she clearly did her homework with regard to imperialism and colonization, which is always nice to see in SFF. I liked how everything tied up, and even if there were no real surprises, it was in the good way. Everything in the book made sense, and there was no, like, DRAMATIC TURN because REASONS, which is a thing I deeply dislike.

I'm happy for series like this one, because I love reading them in YA. I want them to do well because I want to read more of them (Susan Dennard's Witchlands series fits here too: she's going to get five books, at least!). I have zero interest in writing one, but, so help me, the YA series are so much more FUN than the adult ones. I want more of them on the shelves.