The Dark Days Deceit
Alison Goodman
3/5
The third and final book in the Lady Helen trilogy, The Dark Days Deceit picks up about six months after the ending of the last one. Lady Helen is engaged to the Duke of Selburn, they are set to be married on the first day of the new year and it's going to be big. Everyone's congratulating her for making such a perfect match, but she's not very happy with it. For one thing, she's on track to fight the first Grand Deceiver in hundreds of years and that's a bit scarier than getting married. But also, she's kind of in love with someone else.
I wanted to like this book a lot more than I actually liked this book to be quite honest. Like, it's literally everything I want in a plot- regency, demon hunting, special powers, romance. But it just fell kind of flat to what it could have been. The ultimate villain felt kind of predictable and all the deaths along the way were kind of predictable as well. I think I was probably in a bad headspace to read it though because it's my third book in a row where the happy-go-lucky sidekick was killed to advance the arc of the main protagonists.
A lot of things at the end just felt so rushed and incomplete. We've been hyping these things up for the whole trilogy and then they were just done? It just didn't feel like the ending that these characters deserved. The chemistry between certain characters felt off the whole time and I don't think that was ever acknowledged. I'll still recommend this series to people because again, it checks all the boxes and was kind of enjoyable along the way. I just feel like it could've been more.
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