Lilibet Bombshell's Reviews > It Ends with Knight

When Her Name is Knight first came out, I snapped it up because of the cover, but I ended up loving it because it was just a really captivating, entertaining, enjoyable book. Same with They Came at Knight. And now we have this book, the last of what is one of the best trilogies I’ve ever read when considered as whole: It Ends With Knight.

If you take this book away from the other two I think it’s stronger than They Come at Knight and is almost on par with Her Name is Knight. The reason this title gets four stars instead of five isn’t because the book is bad: it’s because the book was predictable. I do need to add in, however, that since I read so many thriller and suspense novels I may just be too…inured to the things that happen in thrillers that may surprise other people. Maybe I’m just kind of primed for them and when they happen I’m just not surprised anymore. After all, genre fiction has building blocks. The trick to writing is in how authors use those building blocks.

As usual, Yasmin Angoe’s prose and worldbuilding is excellent. I feel as if the challenge with writing the character of Nena Knight is how to write her as both a mature, wicked assassin but also writing her as someone who is still very unaccustomed or even naive to a lot of things in the western world without making her sound like an idiot or making it seem forced. Nena has endured quite an emotional and psychologically taxing journey through these three books, and Angoe has done a great job walking the tightrope between keeping Nena consistent in her role as an assassin and letting her non-Tribe self grow and develop.

The plot was interesting, with Nena’s father asking her and her team to take on a different role than they normally do (AKA, not killing people) in order to protect tanzanite mining interests for the Tribe in Tanzania. Nena balks at the idea, since usually this sort of mission is something her sister takes on; but since her sister has the baby at home they’re asking Nena to do it.

Most of the book has Nena battling impostor syndrome, ruminating deeply on (what she sees as) her past mistakes, thinking back on her beginnings, questioning her future with Dispatch, and contemplating her relationship with Cort and her place with Georgia, Cort’s daughter.

It’s entertaining, engaging, emotional, has a lot of action, has some funny moments, and is the conclusion to a great story. Do yourself a favor and read the whole trilogy in a row if you have the time. It’s a great time.

I was provided a copy of this title by NetGalley and the author. All thoughts, opinions, views, and ideas expressed herein are mine and mine alone. Thank you.

File Under: Book Series/Espionage Thriller/Found Family/General Fiction/Kindle Unlimited/Political Thriller