Author: Teshelle Combs
Spice: 🌶 🌶 🌶🌶
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Length: 489 pages
Format: Digital, Via Kindle
Genre: Dystopian Fantasy
Tropes: slow burn, cliff-hanger, found family
Started: 05/01/2024
Finished: 05/11/2024
PLEASE NOTE: POTENTIAL SPOILERS AHEAD
Slit Throat Saga 2 (STS2) is a brilliant meld of action, romance, world building, character development, and cackle-inducing humor. It also hurts a lot, but in a good way. I promise.
So we leave off in Slit Throat Saga (STS) with chaos and STS2 doesn’t disappoint on the chaos front. War is brewing, Nexus is the Goddess of Storm, Nex becomes the (accidental) ruler of Shui and Nuren’s (accidental) adversary, the truth about the City is more explicitly laid out for Nex, she finds out more of her friends and family have been lying to her from her beginning, we take a trip to Hel, and there’s a gut-wrenching cliff-hanger of an ending. Right on par for a Tess novel, if I do say so myself!
We also learn more about Nex’s existence. Essentially it’s like groundhog day, but Nex’s whole life keeps repeating for a new/desired outcome. This life is the final time it will all restart, so let’s hope the good guy wins! (IDK who that is, but I’m sure we’ll all find out together!)
Have you read The First Dragon by Teshelle Combs? If not, there’s a spoiler incoming!
NEANDER IS LORR’S LONG LOST BROTHER! Are we getting a First Collection and Slit Throat Saga crossover?! I certainly hope so!
I cannot believe (but actually I can) how Lorr took Heili’s place in Hel for Nex and then is CRUSHED by an IMPLODING HEL. This is not how Nex and Lorr’s story should end and I cannot accept this is the last we’ll see of him. He deserves a redemption arc so I won’t be mad at him anymore. In the wise words of Nex, herself, in Episode 50 “ I deserve a better ending. A good one.” I can’t wait to see where the third and final book in this trilogy inevitably takes us once it’s released!
XOXO
La Biblio-Fille 