Frost Like Night (Snow Like Ashes Trilogy, #3)

by Sara Raasch

Game of Thrones meets Graceling in this action-packed fantasy-the highly anticipated final book in the New York Times bestselling Snow Like Ashes series by Sara Raasch. Perfect for fans of An Ember in the Ashes and A Court of Thorns and Roses. Angra is alive, his Decay is spreading-and no one is safe. Meira will do anything to save her world. With Angra trying to break through her mental defenses, she desperately needs to learn to control her own magic-so when the leader of a mysterious Order from Paisly offers to teach her, Meira jumps at the chance. But the true solution to stopping the Decay lies in a labyrinth deep beneath the Season Kingdoms. To defeat Angra, Meira will have to enter the labyrinth, destroy the very magic she's learning to control-and make the biggest sacrifice of all. Mather will do anything to save his queen. He needs to rally the Children of the Thaw, find Meira-and finally tell her how he really feels. But with a plan of attack that leaves no kingdom unscathed and a major betrayal within their ranks, winning the war-and protecting Meira-slips farther and farther out of reach. Ceridwen will do anything to save her people.
Angra had her brother killed, stole her kingdom, and made her a prisoner. But when she's freed by an unexpected ally who reveals a shocking truth behind Summer's slave trade, Ceridwen must take action to save her true love and her kingdom, even if it costs her what little she has left. As Angra unleashes the Decay on the world, Meira, Mather, and Ceridwen must bring the kingdoms of Primoria together...or lose everything.

• ISBN10: 0062286986
• ISBN13: 9780062286987
• Publish Date: 22 September 2016 (first published 20 September 2016)
• Publish Status: Active
• Out of Print: 15 October 2021
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
• Imprint: Balzer and Bray
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 496
• Language: English

Reviews

[ladygrey]

I kind of trudged through this book convinced I knew how it was going to play out in the end and just waiting for it to get there. Then it didn’t happen the way I thought it would. And then it did.

So I guess good job being surprising.

And not surprising at all. Because well it was only a matter of time before Meira snd Mather get together. And Cordell’s dagger saves them, which I have seen coming done book two. And Angra attacks before they expect so all their careful plans are wrecked. It’s an awfully big book for everything to be so expected.

The good thing is it wasn’t drowning in repetition or endless cycles of internal monologue. There were some slow sections, but for the most part things happened and the story moved forward—not quite fast enough for me anticipating the end, but not horribly either.

In the end, it as interesting world in how the seasons persist. And I liked that and the way it changed the people who lived in each. There’s decent characters that were enough to carry me through the books, perhaps just. (Rares calling her dear heart every other sentence was annoying). I ended up skimming through a good chunk of the setting description which made that lighter. Somehow though, it wasn’t bad but.... well that last line of Theron’s feels kind of exactly right for the series. I’m sorry I couldn’t be enough for you.”

[readingwithwrin]

3.5 stars
“The world is changing. We cannot deal with the problem as we have in the past, or we will always end up where we started.”

If you have not yet read the other books in the trilogy or would rather not possibly be spoiled than I suggest waiting to read this review.
MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS

See reviews first on my blog


When we first started out in this trilogy we see Meira as a child who is almost at times it seems playing soldier. But now while she is still just a teenager, she is also a leader, who has become as fearless as possible under the circumstances she is under. She has had to train harder mental and physically and felt so much betrayal. Yet she hasn't let those betrayals break her or make her harder to the world. She still insists on protecting her people know matter the cost, and she realizes that people need to make their own decisions and she can't force someone to do something just because it will make things easier for her.

“Angra wanted to break me.
But he only made me unbreakable.”

He really did, which I'm not going to lie kind of surprised me on how strong she ended up being. Because I don't think I could have dealt with the same type of things that she was dealing with and even be anywhere near as good as a queen as she was. I think a lot of what helped her through this though is her determination to finally be able to help her people, and some of the support system she had.

This book also has points of view of Mather and Ceridwen and what is happening while Meira is away dealing with other things. I really think that these added points of view really helped make the book more enjoyable.
Mather is of course always trying to focus on protecting Meira and the Thaw, but he also ends up dealing with a loss in his life and this is something that while makes him fight even harder, also makes him even angrier at Sir. As time goes on though and things get worked out thankfully and he finally starts to become stronger instead of just using fighting all the time as a shield.

Ceridwen really deals with so much in this book, and I loved her character so much. Not only was she having to deal with a crazy person, but she also had to deal with multiple other things, all while trying to put up a strong front and help Meira. Other things that happen though also make her become careless as well, due to the anger she felt, but I can't really fault her on it because it's also what so many of us would have done as well.

As for the ending of this book, I was happy with how the romance things ended up working out for multiple people. There is one death that happened in this book that did hurt my heart a little bit (if it did yours as well please let me know so we can talk about it). The real ending and the defeating of Angra though kind of seem to drag on for me at times, and while I was okay with the ending I would have also been okay if things had ended like we were told they were most likely going to.


p.s. I finally finished a trilogy!

[tweetybugshouse]

Wow this was an emotional roller coaster of an ending to a wonderful trilogy. Miera really steps into her place in this world in this finally book she accepts what she thinks she has to do, as she finally gives into her feelings for her soulmate and comes to terms with what must happen for her to stop angra and his decay from destroying everything. The fight to save Primoria and rebuild to something new comes across in a heart breaking page turning epic conclusion to this three book series. I cried so hard at the end not only from the fact that the story is over but because of the thankful acknowledgements the author leaves for her fans. I also love that i was able to tweet and connect with the author as i read sharing quotes that made me laugh and that i really loved. This is a great series a must read for Ya Fantasy fans.

[nightingalereads]

3.5 stars

I enjoyed this book much more than Ice Like Fire, although the writing and storyline felt a little bland at times. Snow Like Ashes will always be my favorite out of the three, but I was satisfied with where the series ended up. I'll always hold a place in my heart for Meira and Mather.